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Citizens
Commission on Human Rights International
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.
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