(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.

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.

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 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.

A Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta after getting to know that patients in a mental asylum in Badayun district of Uttar Pradesh are kept in chains. A Bench of ...

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.