CCHR Transylvania is on a crusade to protect the children and orphans of Romania from psychiatric abuse through exhibits, pamphlet distribution and educational seminars.

Instead of making you less depressed, antidepressants could lead to homicidal or suicidal actions. Get the facts.

The European Society for Child Psychiatry got more than it bargained for at its 18^th annual congress in Vienna, Austria.

CCHR protesters were right on the doorstep of the annual World Psychiatric Association Congress, protesting abuses in the field of mental health and demanding reform.

Two crusaders for child and parental rights work tirelessly to change Chilean law and protect children from forced psychiatric treatment as a prerequisite to attend school.

The idea of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) developed in 1938 as a “treatment” to make humans more docile, and this barbaric practice is still being used today.

CCHR speaks out loudly for nationwide ban on electroshock treatment at the American Psychiatric Association Convention.

Exhibit in the state capitol shines the light of truth on harmful psychiatric practices.

A Miami psychiatrist, Fernando Mendez-Villamil, flooded Miami’s streets with anti-psychotic drugs as part of a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. He was sentenced in 2016 to 12 years in prison and a full $50 million in restitution for his medical fraud and overmedicating his patients.

CCHR celebrated its 50th anniversary in style, looking back over a history of protecting human rights and recognizing its partners in arms with its Human Rights Award.

Since its founding in 1969, CCHR has worked with freedom fighters, courageous attorneys, dedicated legislators and more, who in turn gave words of support on CCHR’s 50th anniversary.

To provide a sense of the work CCHR does, we look at some of CCHR’s many accomplishments in its first 50 years.

CCHR has reached out to the United Nations to stop coercive psychiatric practices.

What started out as a single case of Child Protective Services illegally ripping a child from a mother becomes a passionate parental rights crusade for a criminal defense attorney.