Czech Republic

Since 2005 MDAC and its partner NGO the League of Human Rights (an NGO based in Brno, Czech Republic) have been jointly working to advance the rights of children and adults with intellectual and psycho-social disabilities.

On 30th June 2014, MDAC published "Cage beds and coercion in Czech psychiatric institutions" which exposed the continuing use of cage beds and other highly coercive practices in Czech psychiatric institutions. Based on human rights monitoring missions conducted in 2013, the report found that there has been little progress in respect for the human rights of people with mental health issues in Czech psychiatric facilities, witth high levels of use of strapping, chemical restraint and isolation in the context of chronic underfunding.

You can read the report in English here, and in Czech here, or click on the images below.