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Our Vision, Mission, Approach

Mental health care is a mirror of society, and access to mental health is a human right protected by numerous international and regional standards.  However, persons with mental health challenges are particularly vulnerable to see their rights neglected, or abused. 

The FGIP envision societies free from mental health related stigma and injustice, in which every person can realize their potential and enjoy their rights in full.

The global mission of FGIP is to develop human rights-based policies, systems, and practices in mental health. To ensure sustainability, FGIP empowers people, engages communities and authorities, consistently together with people with lived experience. We counter politically motivated abuses and misuse in mental health wherever it occurs.

The federation itself plays an international role in promoting best practices, initiating seed projects, countering abuses, and connecting and growing the network, and is organized around three mutually reinforcing programs:

GLOBAL ADVOCACY AND INFLUENCE

  • Promote and disseminate best practices and experiences from the national level 
  • Raise awareness and promote accountability over gross human rights violations due to abuses and misuse in mental health

SEED PROJECTS AND BEST PRACTICES

  • Respond quickly to mental health needs in contexts lacking resources, knowledge
  • Provide mental health actors with examples and practical guidance on how to increase human rights protections in mental health

INSTITUTION BUILDING AND SUSTAINABILITY

  • Sustaining projects and programs through supporting national stakeholders’ ownership 
  • Reinforcing structures of knowledge sharing and exchange amongst FGIP’s membership with the participation of human rights and mental health experts

The Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry cannot remain silent:

Who protects those who protect others?

In a statement issued on December 10, 2025, the Trump administration announced its opposition to the resolution “Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of UN Personnel.“ The resolution, which emphasizes the need to comply with international humanitarian law, addresses the need to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers and UN personnel in conflict zones. It also calls for accountability for attacks on these workers.
 
While the United States claims to take the safety and security of humanitarian personnel seriously, it cannot support this resolution, which it considers purely symbolic. It sees it as a waste of resources and moreover refuses to contribute to the promotion of a radical gender ideology, such as that promoted by the United Nations. An ideology that, according to the Trump administration, undermines true equality between biological men and women.
 
President Trump, a man who used his wealth and status to avoid military service, is thus disparaging doctors, nurses, and other humanitarian workers who work in conflict zones like Gaza or Ukraine. Among which there are undoubtedly ‘real men and women’.
 
The Trump administration’s full eccentric reasoning can be read here:
Read the U.S. Explanation of Vote