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Liberation is a grass roots organisation led by people with experience of mental distress/trauma. Its aim is to champion implementation of the full human rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We work closely with a wide range of user-led organisations. We also welcome joint action with other organisations that are supportive of the Convention.
Information about Liberation
What Liberation is
A grass-roots organisation led by people with experience of mental distress/trauma.
[This will very often, but not always be people given a mental health diagnosis.]
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Liberation’s purpose
To speak out for people with experience of mental distress/trauma who are calling for full human rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Liberation’s aims
➢ To champion the full implementation of the Convention in UK law, policy, commissioning, structures, services and community settings
➢ To do so in partnership with other user-led organisations and through close work with other groups who support the Convention
Its specific objectives
These include the promotion of:
➢ A human rights approach to mental distress/trauma in place of a dominant medical model
➢ A strong emphasis on equal rights too for people in mental distress who encounter more than one form of discrimination
➢ A focus on independent living in the community and wide-ranging opportunities for community involvement
➢ Equal access to physical health services, an adequate standard of living, leisure opportunities, education, voluntary work and employment
➢ Freedom from discrimination, degrading treatment and abuse ➢ An end to substitute decision-making, detention in psychiatric hospitals, forced treatment and community treatment orders
➢ The need for funding to make independent living a reality, with a strong emphasis on user-led, alternative, non-clinical and culturally appropriate options
➢ Awareness-raising about rights set out in the Convention, including the fundamental changes in society and its structures which will be vital, and ways of achieving these
➢ The meaningful involvement of user-led organisations at political, commissioning, structural, service and community levels.
Where Liberation operates
Liberation’s base is in England. We also link with people/groups in the rest of the UK and in other countries.
Membership
Liberation’s membership is drawn from people and organisations that support the UNCRPD.
➢ People in England with lived experience of mental distress/trauma and groups
in England led by them are invited to be direct members of Liberation
➢ People with lived experience and groups led by them in the rest of the UK and
in other countries are invited to join Liberation as allies
➢ Deaf and Disabled People’s organisations, organisations led by unpaid carers
and members of these in any country are invited to join as associate allies
➢ Other people and groups/organisations that support Liberation’s aims are
invited to join as associates.
Membership costs
➢ Membership is free, so that it is available to everyone, regardless of income
➢ Donations are welcome from people who can genuinely afford to make them.
Contact details for Liberation:
• Email address: liberationrights@gmail.com
• Contact phone number: 07565 399 422
• Postal address: PO Box 49677, London N8 8WQ
• Website: https://liberationrights.wordpress.com (pending)