 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida The Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an award-winning nonprofit in the area of mental health human rights and an industry watchdog, hosts regular events educating Floridians on everything from their rights under the...
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) held a two-day exhibit in the Oviedo Mall that presented shocking evidence of mental health abuse and dangerous psychiatric drugging of children.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights International CCHR says electroshocking minors—including 5-year-olds—causes brain damage and violates global human rights standards, urging U.S. states to prohibit the practice under child abuse laws.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida After a public records request revealed that children in the under 5 age group are given electroshock, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is calling for a ban its use citing a lack of lack of clinical studies on safety and effectiveness.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) held a four-day exhibit in the Orlando area that presented shocking evidence of mental health abuse and dangerous psychiatric drugging of children.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights A new study reveals widespread misinformation about electroshock therapy among patients. CCHR says parents are similarly misled about ECT use on teens and children as young as five.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights The Mental Health Watchdog calls for reforms to protect public safety, citing decades of antidepressant, electroshock, and psychedelic drug risks.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights The mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, says informed consent is breached every time patients are not warned of the brain damage, long-term memory loss, and cardiac risks, including death, associated with electroshock, per the study.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights Mental health industry watchdog, CCHR, calls for increased legal action to protect vulnerable youth from abuses in psychiatric facilities.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights 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.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights 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
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights International 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.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights Group says actress Whoopi Goldberg recently revealed her mother was given electroshock resulting in the memory loss of her children, highlighting that women have been and continue to be over-targeted for ECT.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights Group protests the American Psychiatric Association meeting during May's Mental Health Month, calling for legislation to define forced treatment as torture and to ban electroshock treatment.
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| By Citizens Commission on Human Rights International CCHR urges a ban be extended to all shock machines used for behavioral and mental health treatment, citing brain damage and other harms.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights International CCHR joins survivors of electroshock torture in NZ in condemning a very late apology issued by a psychiatric association, spanning half a century of neglecting the abuse endured. The group wants justice for victims of analogous abuse in the U.S.
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 | By Citizens Commission on Human Rights Subjecting 100,000 Americans, including children, to electroshock (ECT) constitutes torture, given the risks associated with it, CCHR says.
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