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mental health

July 13, 2014

Lethal proposal for people with depression unable to work

People in the UK unable to work because of depression may have their benefits stopped if they do not undergo cognitive behavioural therapy, which it is assumed will cure them, a newspaper has reported. If this plan goes ahead, sizeable numbers of mentally ill people are likely to die.
May 24, 2014

Horrific death puts spotlight on US prisons

Allegations that a mentally ill prisoner in Florida was tortured to death, followed by a cover-up, have focused attention on the US prison system. Inmates and staff at Dade Correctional Institution in Miami have claimed that abuse was common.
March 14, 2014

Pakistani authorities block medical access to mentally ill British prisoner

Authorities in Pakistan are refusing to allow access for an independent medical assessment of a British man sentenced to death earlier this year on blasphemy charges.
February 20, 2014

British man in Democratic Republic of Congo receives life sentence

A Briton imprisoned in the Democratic Republic of Congo has received a life sentence for the murder of his friend and cellmate despite reports that the death was a suicide.
January 29, 2014

Pakistan death sentence Briton 'urgently' needs mental health treatment

Lawyers for Mohammed Asghar, a British man with severe mental health problems sentenced to death in Pakistan on blasphemy charges, finally gained access to their client yesterday (28 January).
January 25, 2014

UK government urged to help Briton facing blasphemy death sentence in Pakistan

The Government must urgently act to protect an elderly, British man with severe mental health problems sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, says Reprieve.
October 28, 2013

New report highlights war trauma among young soldiers

Young soldiers from disadvantaged backgrounds are much more likely to return from war with mental health problems, says a new report from ForcesWatch.
October 9, 2013

World Mental Health Day should highlight the government's ongoing failures

The Government should not be so quick to issue statements expressing its pride at the 'progress' it has made ahead of World Mental health Day.
October 9, 2013

Suicide 'epidemic' ravages Guarani, says Survival International

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, Survival International has revealed shocking new suicide figures afflicting the Guarani tribe in Brazil.
May 23, 2013

Welfare and benefit reform justice forum held in Oxford

A Justice Forum on welfare and benefit reform, the first of a series organised by the Diocese of Oxford,took place today (23 May) at the Wesley Memorial Church in Oxford.