World Mental Health Day 2023

This year’s theme is aptly tagged “Mental health is a universal human right” and aims to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right.

In realisation of the fact that the terrain of mental health in Nigeria is still fraught with a lot of challenges, especially as it concerns human rights and the legal and humanitarian framework of the practice, also considering your robust contributions in the field of community psychiatry, we are inviting you to speak on the topic:  Mental health and human rights in the Nigerian terrain.

Having a mental health condition should never be a reason to deprive a person of their human rights or to exclude them from decisions about their own health. Yet in Nigeria, people with mental health conditions continue to experience a wide range of human rights violations. Many are excluded from community life and discriminated against, while many more cannot access the mental health care they need or can only access care that violates their human rights.

We hope that the webinar will challenge us to do better and be better, as practitioners, government agencies, employers, community members and people struggling with mental disorders.