World Mental Health Day is a Chance for More Inclusivity: Daily Brief
Plus: Enforce shackling ban in Ghana; Croatia should stop segregating people with disabilities; investigate Kasese killings in Uganda; prioritize accountability for police abuses in Armenia; Bulgaria should combat violence against women; protect civilians in Idlib, Syria; and Rwanda must demonstrate more credible changes.
Today is World Mental Health Day, an opportunity to include the voices of people with psychosocial disabilities.
Hundreds of people with psychosocial disabilities in Ghana are still shackled like cattle. The government needs to sensitize communities and invest in local mental health services.
It's 2018 and thousands of children and adults with disabilities continue to live in segregated institutions. Will Croatian PM Andrej Plenkovic work to change this?
More than 100 Ugandans were killed by security forces in the Nov 2016 Kasese killed, hundreds more detained, some tortured. It’s time for the government to investigate and bring those implicated to justice.
Armenia’s new leadership should prioritize accountability for the past abuses by law enforcement.
Across the EU, public officials’ open disdain for advancing equality and combating violence against women is gaining steam. Bulgaria should prioritize efforts to combat violence against women.
Syria’s warring parties must commit to protecting civilians throughout Idlib and beyond.
Even after the recent releases of political prisoners in Rwanda, the country has to end summary executions, enforced disappearances, unlawful arrest and detention, and torture – all of which remain too common in Rwanda today.
And Diane Rwigara, opposition leader in Rwanda who was recently released on bail says Rwanda has to change, so that people can stop ‘looking over their shoulder in fear’.