Background The Geneva Academy of international Humanitarian Law and Human Rights is a postgraduate joint center located in Geneva, Switzerland. The faculty includes professors from both founding institutions and guest professors from major universities. The Geneva Academy is affiliated with the University of Geneva. Dr. Nils Melzer has been the Swiss Human Rights Chair (HR […]
England is "in the grip of a mental health crisis" because of lockdowns, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists – and under-18s are "bearing the brunt".
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Psychiatrists at Cambridge University have drawn attention to the impact of lockdown on young people. They demand urgent action "to ensure that this generation is not disproportionately disadvantaged by Covid".
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A GP from Suffolk has written on the impact of the Government's lockdowns on women's mental health. The fear of catching Covid has prevented many women from seeking medical help for potentially serious issues.
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Children are the world’s most valuable resource, and its best hope for the future. — John F. Kennedy (“Re: United States Committee for UNICEF, July 25, 1963.”) • What President Kennedy said over half a century ago, is more valid today than ever. This world needs a generation that can lead us out of the […]
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The emergence in 2020 of the Coronavirus (or Covid-19) and the putative dire implications for us all of its unchecked spread and virulence caught most people on the planet off guard. This development signalled an epochal turning point for the global political economy, for our society and humanity. Greg Maybury gets ‘up close and personal’ […]
This powerful short film from British teenager Liv McNeil tells one story of millions, of how lockdown is punishing children by denying them education, social contact and generally a normal life. It comes out amid new research highlighting the toll the “pandemic” response has taken on the mental health of children, with surges in self-harm …
A December 2017 statement from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights notes that, while the US manages to spend “more [money] on national defence than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined”, US infant mortality rates were, as of 2013, “the highest in the developed world”. […]
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In recent times of Covid-19 the importance of giving adequate attention to mental health has been re-emphasized time and again. Here again, however, the new and welcome phase of giving more emphasis to mental health has not yet reached the more remote rural areas. However those with long experience of working on mental health in remote rural areas say[Read More...]
