Endorse
the Human Rights Statement Against Psychiatric Persecution Petition
to the UNO Human Rights Commission in Geneva
Copy of the Petition
To: The UNO Human Rights Commission
in Geneva
We address all members of the human family to recognise our basic right
for self-determination as people who suffer from psychiatric persecution,
psychiatric incarceration and psychiatric torture.
We declare that:
1. Preamble
Whereas recognition
of the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members
of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in
the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous
acts which have outraged the conscience of humankind, and the advent of
a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief
and freedom from fear (which consists of freedom from arbitrary incarceration,
torture and arbitrary killing) and freedom from want has been proclaimed
as the highest human aspiration,
Whereas it is essential, if a person is not to be compelled to have recourse,
as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human
rights should be protected by the rule of law,
We recognise the atrocities of the systematic psychiatric mass killing
in the gas chambers of the "Aktion T4", which started in 1939
as a medical-biological campaign in Germany, and followed by the extermination
camps in Poland, as the basis point of the following statement on human
rights. We emphasise that the defeat of those barbarous acts, histories
worst case of dehumanisation and violations of the norms of civilisation,
was also the basis for the UNO Universal Declaration of Human Rights from
1948 after the Nuremberg trials.
2. Therefore:
A) A human being is a being conceived by another human being.
B) There is no distinction possible between the fundamental human rights of one human being from another, no matter how unusual a person may look, thinks and express his/her thoughts.
C) Hereby we emphasise the basic function of the articles of the UNO Universal Declaration of Human Rights to define the basic rights of any human being.
D) We declare the use of psychiatric vocabulary as a libel and medical slander, biological and racial discrimination, especially when it claims to describe a person's behaviour as caused by genetics or brain disorder.
E) We declare as forms of torture all psychiatric persecution, psychiatric arbitrary incarceration and psychiatrically forced bodily acts and intrusions, such as treatment with drugs; Electroshock; psycho - surgery; four point restraints and others. These have been consistently defined as tortures by persons from all around the world and through the whole existence of coercive psychiatry, regardless if a person is deemed mentally "incompetent" by medical professionals and that the place of the procedure is declared a "medical institution" called a "hospital".
F) Based on the above arguments we declare psychiatric coercion to be "fear" as it is defined in the UNO Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every human being has the basic right of freedom from fear.
G) We recognise psychiatry based on coercion, force and violence as a crime against humanity since it denies individuals the status of a human being, endowed with inalienable Human Rights, by describing their soul in a biological - medical fashion as "ill" and having a biological-medical "mental illness", thus legally justifying all forms of violence against them.
H) We deny that the UNO General Assembly is entitled, by supporting this psychiatric biological racial doctrine, to exclude a part of the human family from being recognised as human beings. Therefore we call upon the nations of the world to abolish the resolution 46/119 of 17 December 1991. This resolution violates the basic principles of the UNO Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948. This resolution is an assault on the inherent dignity of all members of the human family and on their equal and inalienable rights, the foundation of freedom and justice.
Sincerely,
Follow this LINK to sign the Petition
NOTE:
The Human Rights
Statement against Psychiatric Persecution Petition to the UNO Human Rights
Commission in Geneva was created by people who suffer from psychiatric
persecution, psychiatric incarceration and psychiatric torture and written
by Hagai
Aviel, chairperson
of the Israeli Association Against Psychiatric Assault (IAAPA).
(not the same group as I A A P A - International Association Against Psychiatric
Assault -- founded in Oct. 21, 2002 -- see below for link)
The Israeli Association Against Psychiatric Assault (I.A.A.P.A.) was founded in January 1995 as a long-needed response to severe human rights abuses by the mental health establishment. The association is composed of victims of psychiatric assault, whose main aim is to reclaim the dignity and liberty of people forcibly institutionalized by informing them of their legal rights and status. Read More =>
The petition is hosted
at www.PetitionOnline.com
at this pinpoint
URL:
http://www.petitiononline.com/17AP58/petition.html
Other links:
People
Against Coercive Treatment
People Against
Coercive Treatment is a grassroots organization of psychiatric survivors
(in Toronto, Ontario Canada) who came together in order to fight the proposed
changes to the Mental Health Act which would make it much easier for psychiatrists
to force people who have been labeled to take brain-damaging drugs on
pain of being locked up within those ugly prisons known as 'psychiatric
care facilities.'
I
A A P A - International Association Against Psychiatric Assault
The association
is a Human Rights organization in the field of psychiatric coercion whose
aims are to abolish psychiatric coercive measures altogether and to promote
the fundamental rights of self-determination, liberty, and human dignity.
(Founded Oct. 21, 2002 in Basel, Switzerland.)
http://www.iaapa.ch/
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