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February 6, 2023 News Release

UN Message to Ghana on Mental Health Care

At Human Rights Council, Countries Condemn the Practice of Shackling

Two men are shown having one of their ankles chained to a log-like structure.

December 8, 2022 Dispatches

Shackled in Ghana for Mental Health Conditions

They Broke Her Spirit but Should Instead Break the Chains

A woman with a real or perceived psychosocial disability is chained in a room at Mount Horeb Prayer Camp in Ghana.

December 1, 2022 News Release

Ghana: Chaining People with Mental Health Conditions Persists

Enforce Ban on Shackling; Provide Community-Based Services

There are four people standing, all of whom have their ankles chained to restrict their movement.

July 14, 2022 UPR

Ghana: Submission to the Universal Periodic Review

July 2022

October 6, 2020 News Release

People with Mental Health Conditions Living in Chains

Worldwide Campaign to End Shackling, Shame

A man sitting on a concrete structure with a chain around his ankle. Another man is lying on the concrete floor.

November 11, 2019 Report

Nigeria: People With Mental Health Conditions Chained, Abused

Ban Chaining; Provide Mental Health Services

October 2, 2018 Report

Indonesia: Shackling Reduced, But Persists

Oversight Crucial to End Abuse of People with Disabilities

A woman with a scarf sits on a wooden platform to which she is shackled.

March 20, 2016 Interview

The Living Hell of People with Mental Health Conditions in Indonesia

A man with a psychosocial disability lies chained at the wrist on a platform bed at the Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java. All residents of the healing center are chained. © 2015 Andrea Star Reese for Human Rights Watch

March 20, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Treating Mental Health With Shackles

People With Psychosocial Disabilities Face Restraints, Abuse

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