Rethink Rights

Welcome to the Rethink Rights section! Here you will find information about the Rethink Rights Project, the Rethink Politics project and our anti-discrimination work. These campaigns are all about empowering people to exercise their rights and breaking down the stigma often associated with mental illness.

Latest news!

Mind is looking into issues around access to justice for mental health service users. They have two questionnaires - one for service users and one for service providers.
Public Affairs staff have attended a Rethink Rights workshop if you would like to find out more please contact campaigns@rethink.org for further details.
Join the Rethink Rights discussion forum to have your say about the direction our Rethink Rights project takes.

Rethink Rights project
The Rethink Rights project is about empowering people with mental illness to enable them to fulfil their aspirations in life. The focus is not only on ensuring we all have access to basic entitlements such as housing, healthcare and education but ensuring we are all equipped to be able to participate as citizens within the society in which we live.

Rethink Politics
The Rethink Politics Project is about increasing awareness and understanding of, and participation, in the democratic process

Breaking Down the Wall
The Breaking Down the Wall campaign aims to break down the wall of stigma and discrimination faced by people affected by severe mental illness, brick by brick. Challenging discrimination in employment, benefits and jury service.

Anti-discrimination
To date we've run two very successful Rethink Anti-Discrimination campaigns