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Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)
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Psychiatrists Admit to Role in the Holocaust but Admission Still Needed for Apartheid

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog group that organized the Psychiatry: an Industry of Death exhibit displayed free at the Castle of Good Hope, said the history of psychiatry’s involvement in both the Holocaust and apartheid should be known

Dr. Koos Marais, a surgeon and author of Die Keiservoel oor Namaland (“The Kaiserbird over Namaland”) spoke at the opening of a human rights exhibit in Cape Town this week, addressing the role that psychiatry played in the Holocaust. His book about the German occupation of South Africa also reveals…

Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)
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Tribal Resolution Denounces Psychiatric Drugging of Children

The resolution comes after a week of activities lead by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health watchdog group, to warn and educate Cape Town parents and youth on the dangers of psychiatric drugs

King Thomas Edgar Brown, Monarch of the National Khoisan Kingdom, issued a Tribal Resolution today denouncing psychiatry’s drugging of South African children with powerful mind-altering drugs. “I am issuing an official warning to the Khoisan people and all other Tribes and Nations against the dangers of psychiatry and I mandate…

Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)
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Khoisan Monarch supports Children’s Rights March against Psychiatric Drugging of South African Children

Despite a 2005 “Drug Alert” from South Africa’s Medicines Control Council about SSRI antidepressants putting adolescents at increased risk of suicide, children and adolescents are still prescribed the drugs

King Thomas Edgar Brown, Monarch of the National Khoisan Kingdom in South Africa supported a children’s rights march held Saturday outside the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC) where the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) International Congress was being held. The march, organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) (www.CCHRint.org),…

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SOUTH AFRICAN TODDLERS PRESCRIBED MIND-ALTERING STIMULANTS, ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND ANTIPSYCHOTICS

Parents Informed Consent Campaign Launched

South Africa reports having one of the highest rates in the world of prescribed stimulants for children labeled with so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)—a rate even higher than in the U.S.[i]  While The New York Times recently reported the prescription of dangerous antidepressants and antipsychotics to children aged two…