Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

New research confirms that a significant percentage of antidepressant users develop severe sexual dysfunction that is physiologically damaging and may persist for years after the drugs are stopped.

A landmark Harvard-affiliated review finds that profit-driven biomedical psychiatry has obstructed human rights-based mental health care, fueling coercion, unsafe drug use, and systemic abuses worldwide.

With global bodies rejecting coercive psychiatric practices, CCHR highlights major human rights gains, exposes ongoing abuses—especially against children—and calls for a worldwide ban on forced hospitalization, drugging, and electroshock.

CCHR exposes oversight failures that enabled decades of addiction and neurological injury from psychiatric drugs. Its new documentary reveals how industry influence and diagnostic labels conceal widespread harm and escalating public health risks.

CCHR's latest documentary, Prescription for Violence, compiles court rulings, expert testimony, and global data—featuring attorneys, psychiatrists, and survivors—exploring the correlation between psychiatric drugs and violence and self-harm.

A national coalition of health and human rights organizations, attorneys, medical experts, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) survivors says the U.S.

National analyses reveal widespread psychotropic prescribing to infants, toddlers, and young children. CCHR is urging immediate federal oversight, calling the trend a systemic failure, placing children at chemical risk.

International Mental Health Industry Watchdog's Decades-Long Battle for Transparency

As the U.S. considers policies to forcibly detain the homeless and others in psychiatric institutions, a new study shows people subjected to involuntary psychiatric hospitalization face a dramatically higher suicide risk and human rights violations.

U.S. human rights advocate addressed the World Federation for Mental Health Congress, urging global alignment with U.N. and W.H.O. mandates to abolish coercive psychiatric practices, including forced ECT and drugging.