MDRI’s Work in Argentina

Since 2004, MDRI has worked in Argentina to document the conditions and treatment of people detained in the country’s psychiatric institutions, train locally-based advocates to investigate abuses and in the international human rights standards that apply to people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities.

In 2007, MDRI published Ruined Lives: Segregation from Society in Argentina's Psychiatric Asylums, a report documenting egregious human rights abuses, with our local partner, the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS).

MDRI has also spearheaded efforts to organize civil society around mental health reform and the enforcement of the rights of users of mental health services.

Read more about MDRI's impact in Argentina.