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Ghana: Rights Group Highlights Mental Abuse
HRW, 19 November 2013
The recent visit to Ghana by the United Nations expert on torture highlights the need to end abuses against people with mental disabilities. Read more »
At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.
People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana. The Ghanaian government has ... see more »
This report describes how thousands of people with mental disabilities are forced to live in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers, ... see more »
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