Coping inside: a psychiatric patient in Nigeria tells her story

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Coping inside: a psychiatric patient in Nigeria tells her story

In Nigeria, widespread ignorance fuels perceptions that people with a mental illness are somehow cursed or possessed by demons. Inadequate psychiatric care is also a problem. Many patients are left to roam the streets or are sent to churches or ...
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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...
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