Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: How to safeguard your rights and the one of your children, your neighbors and your friends?

- by Patrick Valtin

Sadly enough, we have entered the 21th century with more human right inequalities and contradictions in the world than ever. Our parliaments have outlawed a range of inhumane practices and passed laws intended to ensure fair treatment for all; yet human rights organizations remind us that for many of the world’s 6 billion human beings, life continues to be a painful struggle for existence against injustice and abuse.

In its yearly reports, Amnesty International describes significant human rights violations in almost 200 countries. The number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights has soared by over 3,000% between 1988 and 2008.

Human rights are defined as “the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.”

More than fifty years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Soon after, the Declaration inspired the European Convention on Human Rights, one of the most important Conventions in the European Community.

Click here to see an abridged version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the full text of the Declaration is available in most libraries, from United Nations information centers in each capital city, and is on the United Nations Internet website at http://www.un.org/.)

Youth for Human Rights: How to guarantee that your kids know about their rights.

- by Patrick Valtin

Youth for Human Rights International teaches human rights education both in the classroom and beyond traditional education settings. Its aim is to reach people from diverse backgrounds and its materials often appeal across generations. From teaching human rights through conferences and workshops to hip-hop and dancing, the message spreads around the world and reaches onto every continent and into many countries.

Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) was formed in 2001. Youth for Human Rights International launched a European-wide Essay Writing Contest for youth between the ages of eight and eighteen, in coordination with Friends of the United Nations. Three young people from Hungary, Czech Republic and Austria won a trip to Geneva, home of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, to receive their awards on October 11, 2001.

Government officials, educators, religious leaders and human rights activists recognize the value of YHRI’s work.  

Click here to view some of the many endorsements of YHRI and its programs. Click on the related links to see the articles.

Click here to access a youtube Human Right video, “UNITED”

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): protecting you against fraudulent, abusive psychiatric treatments and crimes

- by Patrick Valtin

Mr. Patrick Valtin is a fervent defender of human rights. He is a member of CCHR – Citizens Commission on Human Rights as well as an honorary freedom fighter for CCHR Florida.

When people think of human rights, they usually have their attention on some third-world countries such as China, Nigeria or North Korea. They do not realize that human rights are a local or even neighborly matter.

Human rights are in fact violated almost daily, “next door”. Not with open torture or gun violence or not even with political harassment. And the main victims are unfortunately children and teens. Maybe your own child is affected. What are we talking about?

Get educated on the most covert and Machiavellian plan to: take away your freedom, your power of choice and your children. This is not another conspiratorial theory! But it might be the most villainous plan by some hidden (but unveiled) forces to get rich on your life, your health and your kids. Check Mr. Valtin’s personal blog on the matter: www.patrickvaltin.forhumanrights.org and see for yourself…

Discover the truth about psychiatric drugs and how the “child drugging” business has become a government-supported, huge money-making machine. Find out why psychiatric abuses have been silenced for so many years, why Teenscreen is a scam and why ADHD has been pushed so hard on school campuses.

To have access to videos and special reports on human right violations by the psychiatric industry on children, elderly or the minorities, or if you need help to denounce such violations, visit the CCHR web site. 

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights.

It also ensures that criminal acts within the psychiatric industry are reported to the proper authorities and acted upon.

CCHR was founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and the internationally acclaimed author, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse. At that time, the victims of psychiatry were a forgotten minority group, warehoused under terrifying conditions in institutions around the world. Because of this, CCHR penned a Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights that has served as its guide for mental health reform.

The Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Commission acknowledged CCHR as responsible for “many great reforms” that protect people from psychiatric abuse.  Additionally, CCHR has documented thousands of individual cases that demonstrate psychiatric drugs and often-brutal psychiatric practices create insanity and cause violence.

Since 1969, CCHR’s work has helped to save the lives of millions and prevented needless suffering for millions more. Thanks to the work of CCHR, many countries have now mandated informed consent for psychiatric treatment, along with the right to legal representation, advocacy, recourse and compensation for patients. In some countries, the use of psychosurgery and electroshock on children is banned.

While CCHR does not provide medical or legal advice, it works closely with attorneys, medical doctors and other health care professionals.

One of CCHR’s primary concerns with psychiatry is its unscientific diagnostic system. Unlike medical diagnosis, psychiatrists categorize symptoms only, not disease. In the words of Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University’s School of Public Affairs, Washington, DC, “The notion of scientific validity, though not an act, is related to fraud. Validity refers to the extent to which something represents or measures what it purports to represent or measure. When diagnostic measures do not represent what they purport to represent, we say that the measures lack validity… The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association is notorious for low scientific validity.”

Under this fraudulent diagnostic premise, psychiatry and psychology, entrusted with billions of dollars to eradicate the problems of the mind, have, in fact created and perpetuated them. Their drugs cause senseless acts of violence, suicide ideation, sexual dysfunction, irreversible nervous system damage, hallucinations, apathy, irritability, anxiousness, psychosis and death. And with virtually unrestrained psychiatric drugging of so many of our schoolchildren, it is little surprise that one of the largest age group of murderers today are 15-to 19-year-olds.

CCHR’s Commissioners and members include prominent doctors, lawyers, artists, educators, civil and human rights representatives and professionals who see it as their duty to expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in the field of mental healing. They work to accomplish this with many like-minded individuals and groups, including politicians, teachers, health professionals, government officials, law enforcement officers and media.

With hundreds of CCHR chapters across 34 countries, CCHR has established itself as a powerful human rights advocacy group. Each year CCHR presents its Human Rights Awards to individuals who display exemplary courage in the worldwide fight for the restoration of basic human rights in the mental health area.