Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

New York Times exposé on unethical practices in a chain of psychiatric hospitals prompts mental health industry watchdog to push for the removal of involuntary commitment accreditation from abusive facilities and urges victims to come forward.

Mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, calls for increased legal action to protect vulnerable youth from abuses in psychiatric facilities.

Encouraged by its decline, CCHR, a patients' rights watchdog, launches a series exposing the downfall of electroshock treatment and its long-term dangers, including brain injury.

CCHR welcomes the FDA's decision to disapprove the hallucinogenic drug, MDMA (Ecstasy) saying if approved, it would have fueled a planned $12 billion industry to add more mind-altering drugs to a failed biomedical-based mental health system.

Mental health industry watchdog CCHR exposes new electroshock methods used in the $20 billion "ADHD" market—calls for a ban on all invasive electrical treatments

As the House Appropriations Committee eliminates a loophole that would have allowed punitive electric shocks for behavior control, CCHR calls for a complete ban on all electroshock devices.

CCHR, a mental health industry watchdog, says a New Zealand Inquiry finding of 200,000 children and vulnerable adults tortured in psychiatric and behavioral institutions mirror similar abuses uncovered in the U.S.

The mental health human rights watchdog's websites, publications and documentaries were determined by Spain's highest court to be of "importance in today's society," especially in the debate about ECT, psychosurgery, drugs, involuntary hospitalization,...

With federal and state investigations of the "troubled teen" behavioral industry, the "transport" companies used to kidnap and force children into potentially deadly "therapy" should also be held to account

CCHR, a mental health industry watchdog, praises OIG report highlighting states' failed oversight of foster children's treatment and calls for immediate action to address ongoing drugging concerns.