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Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 163 – 178 PDF Laura Davidson Abstract The practice of coercion on the basis of psychosocial disability is plainly discriminatory. This has resulted in a demand from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 237 – 250 PDF Sam Rowlands and Jeffrey Wale Abstract How might the abortion experience look in a world without the existing regulatory constraints? This paper critically assesses the evidence about how a…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 91 – 104 PDF Ursula M. Read, Lionel Sakyi, and Wendy Abbey Abstract Much of the focus on human rights and mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been on protection from coercion and…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 1 – 6 PDF Audrey Chapman, Carmel Williams, Julie Hannah, and Dainius Pūras When we planned the special section of this issue and distributed our call for papers, we wanted to present a collection that would…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 209 – 220 PDF Heather Came, Dominic O’Sullivan, Jacquie Kidd, and Timothy McCreanor Abstract Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a treaty negotiated between Māori (the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa) and the British Crown,…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 121 – 132 PDF Emma Broberg, Agneta Persson, Anna Jacobson, and Anna-Karin Engqvist Abstract While it is becoming more common to hear calls for a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to health, documented efforts…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 69 – 76 PDF Michelle Funk and Natalie Drew Bold This perspective essay introduces the World Health Organization’s QualityRights initiative, which uses a multicomponent framework and strategies to promote mental…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 251 – 264 PDF Christina Zampas, Avni Amin, Lucinda O’Hanlon, Alisha Bjerregaard, Hedieh Mehrtash, Rajat Khosla, and Özge Tunçalp Abstract A growing body of evidence reveals that the mistreatment of pregnant…

Marie Claire Van Hout and Elie Aaraj It is imperative that governments and prison authorities in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region accept the presence of sexual and drug related virus transmission in prisons and use evidence-based…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 187 – 198 PDF Altaf Saadi, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Caitlin Patler, Jeremias Leonel Estrada, and Homer Venters Abstract A crisis of mass immigration detention exists in the United States, which is home…