SOCIAL REFORM ACTIVITIES

While religious leaders have long recognized that man’s spiritual well-being cannot be entirely divorced from temporal concerns, few churches have dedicated themselves so thoroughly to the cause of social reform as the churches of Scientology. Through their diligence and persistence, the churches are recognized by many as leading champions of human rights, one that involves itself in arenas wherever injustice has been perceived.

It may seem unusual for a church to actively involve itself, as the churches of Scientology have done, in the exposure of psychiatric abuses around the world, governmental abuses of law and human rights, international law enforcement corruption and a host of other ills that plague society, but the fact is Scientologists care as much about the here and now as the hereafter. The Creed of the Church specifically addresses the inalienable rights of all men, regardless of race, color or creed, and the actions of Scientologists everywhere have given these words true substance.

CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

In 1969, the Church of Scientology established the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights and to clean up the field of mental healing. It is today the leading international watchdog for mental health.

At the time of CCHR’s founding, the victims of psychiatry were a forgotten minority group, warehoused under dreadful, inhuman conditions in institutions around the world. Inmates were subjected to punitive electric shock treatment, often without anesthetic, as punishment for bad behavior. Their brains were routinely destroyed by psychiatrists using lobotomies and other procedures. Many were experimented upon with therapeutically unproven, mind-altering drugs.

Acknowledged by a special rapporteur in a report to the United Nations Human Rights Commission as “responsible for many great reforms” that protect people, CCHR has documented many thousands of individual cases that demonstrate that psychiatric drugs and other brutal psychiatric practices actually create insanity and cause violence.

Through the publication and distribution of more than 8.1 million booklets, informational pamphlets, investigatory white papers and two books, CCHR educates parents, teachers, legislators, and policy makers on dangerous psychiatric treatments and the effect on society.

CCHR has been responsible for more than 100 laws passed to protect individuals from harmful and damaging practices. They have distributed educational materials on psychiatry’s abuses to 8.1 million people.

For the details about the many battles fought and won by CCHR and to read copies of their online exposés, visit these web sites:

www.cchr.org
www.psychcrime.org
www.fightforkids.com
www.psychassault.com