To read CCHR's Declaration of Mental Health Rights go to CCHR International is a non-profit mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive psychiatric practices. CCHR has long fought against forced drugging and electroshocking of patients, involuntary commitment, the psychiatric drugging of children, & psychiatric incarceration of political dissidents. CCHR has also been the primary mental health watchdog seeking to enact informed consent into the field of mental health - a practice which is virtually non-existent in the psychiatricmental health industry.