The Irish Advocacy Network exists to promote and facilitate Peer Advocacy
on an island-wide basis
This is achieved through the provision of Information and Support for Mental Health service Users and or Survivors. We aim to support people in speaking up for themselves and in achieving
empowerment by taking control of their own lives.
This site is managed by Hafal, a leading mental health charity providing services throughout Wales.
The aim of this site is to offer a set of useful links together with a library of information for mental health professionals, clinicians, individuals living with mental illness, families and carers.
The site is particularly concerned with serious mental illness but we hope it will be useful to others
Amnesty Internationals vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
WHO provides support to countries in developing and implementing progressive mental health laws that promote and protect the rights of people with mental disorders.
The Health-EU Portal is directed at those who want to keep informed about issues affecting their health, and at those who wish to keep up to date with policies and decisions taken at European, national and international level.
Discrimination is described in the Act as the treatment of a person in a less favourable way than another person is, has been or would be treated on any of the above grounds.
