MDRI's Work in Paraguay

Since 2003, MDRI has worked tirelessly to end horrific human rights abuses in Paraguay’s state-run psychiatric institution and engage the government in mental health reform. MDRI, in partnership with the Center for Justice in International Law (CEJIL), has sought and obtained the intervention of the inter-American human rights system to address these abuses.

Due to MDRI’s intervention, a teenage boy who had been locked, naked, in a tiny isolation cell for four years has been reunited with his family and now lives with them in the community.

Read more about MDRI's impact in Paraguay, including this success story and how we are pushing the government to reform its mental health system and enforce the rights of people who use mental health services.