The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) was established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights, and to clean up the field of mental healing. Today, it has more than 130 chapters in over 31 countries. Its board of advisors, called Commissioners, includes doctors, lawyers, educators, artists, business professionals, and civil and human rights representatives.

While it doesn’t provide medical or legal advice, it works closely with and supports medical doctors and medical practice. A key CCHR focus is psychiatry’s fraudulent use of subjective “diagnoses” that lack any scientific or medical merit, but which are used to reap financial benefits in the billions, mostly from the taxpayers or insurance carriers. Based on these false diagnoses, psychiatrists justify and prescribe life-damaging treatments, including mind-altering drugs, which mask a person’s underlying difficulties and prevent his or her recovery.

CCHR’s work aligns with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the following precepts, which psychiatrists violate on a daily basis:

Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.

Through psychiatrists’ false diagnoses, stigmatizing labels, easy-seizure commitment laws, brutal, depersonalizing “treatments,” thousands of individuals are harmed and denied their inherent human rights.

CCHR has inspired and caused many hundreds of reforms by testifying before legislative hearings and conducting public hearings into psychiatric abuse, as well as working with media, law enforcement and public officials the world over.

Mission Statement

THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. It works shoulder-to-shoulder with like-minded groups and individuals who share a common purpose to clean up the field of mental health. We shall continue to do so until psychiatry’s abusive and coercive practices cease and human rights and dignity are returned to all.

For further information:

CCHR International, 6616 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242  (800) 869-2247  Fax: (323) 467-3720
www.cchr.org  e-mail: humanrights@cchr.org

Dr. Giorgio Antonucci, M.D., Italy:
“Internationally, CCHR is the only group that effectively fights and puts an end to psychiatric abuse.”

Dr. Fred Baughman Jr., Neurologist:
“I think there are a lot of groups today that are concerned about the influence of psychiatry in the community and in the schools, but no other group has been as effective in trying to expose the fraudulent diagnosing and drugging … as has CCHR. They are certainly a highly effective group and a necessary ally of just about anyone who shares these concerns and is trying to remedy these ills.”

Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., Director, Whitaker Wellness Institute, California, author of Health & Healing:
“CCHR is the only non-profit organization that is focused on the abuses of psychiatrists and the psychiatric profession. The over-drugging, the labeling, the faulty diagnosis, the lack of scientific protocols, all of the things that no one realizes is going on, CCHR has focused on, has brought to the public’s and government’s attention, and has made headway in stopping the kind of steam-rolling effect of the psychiatric profession.”

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