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Seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’

On the 13th of December, 2010 Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia (RRCHR) in cooperation with Moscow Helsinki Group (RRCHR) will organize a seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’ within the projects on the protection of people with mental disorders and prevention of tortures in closed establishments of Russia.

Published: December 10, 2010 Author: Natalia Spiridonova

When: Monday, 13. December 2010 10 a.m.
To: Monday, 13. December 2010
Where: Moscow, Tourist Hotel
Host: IPA and MHG

The experts from IPA will report on the work of its liaison office, providing the analysis of the reasons of appeals and possible ways of granting aid to the citizens with mental disorders whose rights were broken. The agenda includes also such urgent issues as problems of incapability of people with mental disorders, forms of compulsory treatment, and developing new methods of inspecting psycho-neurologic hospitals.

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