Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

A prestigious award recognized five decades of relentless advocacy for justice and reform fought by CCHR and survivors of electroshock torture at a psychiatric hospital.

CCHR Urges Parents to Seek Constitutional Justice for Abused Teens

CCHR Demands Increased Oversight and Accountability in Response to National Scandal of Staff-Inflicted Sexual Abuse in Residential Behavioral Hospitals

CCHR, a Mental Health Industry Watchdog Increases its Campaign to Educate Parents on Preventing Forced Mental Health Screening of Schoolchildren

The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, shares the report's human rights abuse concerns and demands accountability as U.S. mental health facilities profit from coercion and neglect.

CCHR supports Federal Investigation Launched into the Mass Labeling and "Medicating" of America's Children, especially for ADHD

CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to psychiatric treatment facilities.

As the nation observes Black History Month, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights highlights racial disparities in restraint-related deaths and advocates for legislative change to protect vulnerable patients.

Mental Health Industry Watchdog CCHR Calls for Nationwide Ban, Citing History of Abuse and Fatalities in Troubled Teen Industry

Professor Joanna Moncrieff's new book Chemically Imbalanced has prompted the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to call for greater treatment consent provisions to inform patients a "chemical imbalance" in the brain causing depression is disproved.