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Statement from MVFHR and NAMI on World Days

By Kristin Houle

Murder Victims? Families for Human RightsNational Alliance on Mental IllnessStatement on World Day Against the Death Penaltyand World Mental Health DayOctober 10, 2009The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has designated October 10th ?World DayAgainst the Death Penalty,? and the World Federation for Mental Health has designatedOctober 10th ?World Mental Health Day.? Murder Victims? Families for Human Rightsand the National Alliance on Mental Illness have taken the occasion of these two interesting?World Days? to issue the following statement:Today is a day of two calls to action: a call to end the death penalty and a call tomake mental health treatment a global priority. As organizations who havecome together to form the ?Prevention, Not Execution? project, we bringthese two calls together and declare that it is time to end the death penalty forpeople with mental illness...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on October 08, 2009 (boomark / email).