(Abuja) – Ghana’s government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions – psychosocial disabilities ...

An international rights group has called the Nigerian government to ban chaining as it condemned the “terrible” abuse faced by thousands of people with mental health conditions across the country.

(Accra) – Ghana’s 2017 ban on shackling people with psychosocial disabilities – or mental health conditions – has not halted the practice, Human Rights Watch said today. The government has ...

The Mental Health Society of Ghana has urged traditional ... We shouldn’t flog them; we shouldn’t chain them and treat them as if they are not humans. It is a very bad practice”, he said.

Ghana must take “immediate steps” to end the shackling and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health ... legislation against it. “Chaining people with psychosocial ...

The Mental Health Authority has kick-started what it calls ‘a ban on chaining and shackles’ of mentally ill patients who are abused on a daily basis in traditional and faith-based healers.

International watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has condemned the act of chaining mental health patients in various mental health facilities across Nigeria. It urged the Nigerian government to ...

International rights group, Human Rights Watch, has called on the Nigerian Government to ban the degrading chaining of people across the country battling various mental health conditions.

Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City, has urged the government of Nigeria to ban chaining of people with mental health issues.