The association is a Human Rights organization that opposes psychiatric coercion and aims to abolish psychiatric coercive measures altogether, promoting the fundamental rights of self-determination, liberty, and human dignity.
The following statement in reply to the Report on “Mental health and human rights” by the OHCHR was unanimously adopted at the IAAPA General Assembly on 29th May 2018. On 31.1.2017 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights publicized a report on “Mental health and human rights”, Document A/HRC/34/32. (on this website please click on the […]
DOCUMENTATION Library International news Italy: Foucault Tribunal provokes strong public debate History, until 1948 Degenerate Art and Mad Art by Carl Schneider. How doctor Nazis planned to exterminate modern art. Neo-Nazi Eugenics – Many anti-fascists turn a blind eye? by Rene Talbot Psychiatry during the Nazi era: ethical lessons for the modern professional by Rael D […]
Magazine of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION AGAINST PSYCHIATRIC ASSAULT No. 4 – July 2009 UN-Convention Fraud A chronicle of events Geneva, April 17, 2001: the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, makes an invitation to a meeting in the Palais des Nations which takes place during the 57th meeting of the UN Commission for Human Rights . In its report […]
Erklärung in Deutsch The Psychiatric Hegemony is broken 16 months after the WPA World Congress in Berlin it’s ethic committee president, Paul Appelbaum, suggests “ignoring, re-interpreting or amending the CRPD”, and also that the psychiatric organizations should move governments to “ignore the Convention”. That’s obviously a new approach as psychiatrists are always government-opportunistic and […]
Sad, but in Germany the CRPD is of no use to us Dear Friends, In Germany our practical everyday experience for the last 12 years has convinced us that the UN-convention CRPD is practically useless and disregarded. It was not ratified e.g. by the USA and even where it was ratified – e.g. in Germany […]
The Szasz Column #21 Senseless. Did the perpetrator of the Tuscon massacre have a reason? #20 The Illegitimacy of the “Psychiatric Bible” #19 Madness, myth and medicine #18 “The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux” #17 The Shame of Medicine: The Case of General Edwin Walker #16 Psychiatry: The Shame of Medicine #15 Questioning […]
Deutsch German state archive publishes 30,000 names of the systematic medical mass murder victims 1939-41 On August 30, 2018 the German state archive published on its website a list of more than 30,000 known names of people who were murdered in the gas chambers of the so-called “Aktion T4” in the first phase of the […]
Polski Deutsch 8 demands… …as to how the memory of the victims and the perpetrators of the systematic medical mass murder from 1939 to 1949 should be handled, listed in order of their urgency: Help us turn the Nazi “perfect” murders into imperfect ones by: 1. stopping the use of the Nazi term “euthanasia” (= […]
German version Proclamation of a reform process at an international and national level with the following points: A path to liberation An agenda for international progress nation by nationWe proclaim a reformative procedure which includes a revolutionary progress: A) Ideologically, the UN-CRPD has clarified the issue that coercive psychiatry is a violation of human rights […]
