About Us
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Mental Health Rights Group is an evolving advocacy group to campaign for mental health as a human right. We see mental health as a bridge for development. One in five people in India live with mental illness. Of these millions face significant disability due to the impact of illness. But perhaps more disabling than the illness is the humiliation, the helplessness and the isolation that a person living with mental illness faces every day. Unfortunately, the society and the state remain oblivious to the situation, needs and rights of persons living with mental illness.

MHRG affiliates organizations, families and individuals dealing with mental health. MHRG is formed by persons whose lives are touched by mental health issues. Our organizational affiliates include those who work on the issue of mental health and support people in diverse circumstances. Mental Health Rights Group also has individual members. Many of the individual members are first right holders as they are users of mental health services. Mental Health Rights Group does not insist on disclosure of user status for being associated. Anyone whose life is touched by mental health issues can support and join the group.

Our vision is to live in and contribute to building a world which acknowledges each individual’s rights, dignity, diversity and inclusion. We want to acknowledge and honor all thoughts and feelings of diverse people in difficult circumstances. As a group we want to reach out to those who live with psychosocial difficulties and mental illness so as to ensure that they have equitable and inclusive opportunities for participation in their life and community.

Over the next year we will work towards the following objectives:

  1. Ensuring greater voice for people living with mental illness
  2. Advocating for the rights of persons living with mental illness
  3. Creating Knowledge Resources for Persons living with Mental Illness
  4. Collective Fund Raising for Mental Health Projects and formation of a National Mental Health Fund
  5. Mainstreaming rights based thinking for policy initiatives for Persons with living with Mental Illness
  6. Training the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary level worker for mental health awareness and service provision
  7. Creating Replicable Models of Inclusive Opportunities for Sustainable livelihoods for persons living with Mental Illness

Presently, the Mental Health Rights Group is also focused on campaigning against Mental Health Act Amendments in India, which are retrogressive and will lead to many persons living with mental illness losing their liberty and choice

MHRG can be contacted at Phone, Mail, Office


MHRG
Room F 18 - 20
2 Balbir Saxena Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
Mail: contact@mhrg.com
Mobile: +91 9811992101
Phone: 011-32517186
One in five people in India live with mental illness There are only 5000 qualified mental health professionals in India for a population of more than a billion Join the campaign against the stigma of mental illness. Support us now Mental illness is like any other illness and can be cured with treatment and support Only 2% of our total health budget is allocated for mental illness. 
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