Journeys Towards Equality
The Mental Health Commission recently launched “Journeys Towards Equality: Taking Stock of New Zealand’s Efforts to Reduce Discrimination Against People with Experience of Mental Illness.”

The report found that anti-discrimination work has grown enormously in the last decade, to extent that now makes sense to talk of a mental health anti-discrimination sector. Ten years ago there was no Mental Health Commission, Human Rights Act, Like Minds project or Office for Disability Issues, but now New Zealand has laws and organisations to enable progress.

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Respect Costs Nothing
The findings of a national discrimination survey, the first to ask people with experience of mental illness about the nature of any discrimination they experienced, was released at the Like Minds, Like Mine National Provider Seminar on 1 December 2004.

The survey, conducted by Debbie Peterson of the Mental Health Foundation, found the people who have experienced mental illness have also often experienced discrimination in all these aspects of their lives.

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