- Ave Anniste
- Egert Rünne
- Liina Laanpere
The project addresses the complex tension between ensuring safety and protecting fundamental rights in psychiatric hospitals and other closed institutions. By combining comparative legal analysis, lived-experience evidence and the co-creation of guidelines, it promotes awareness, accountability and cross-border exchange of experience. Although the use of surveillance cameras is increasingly common with the aim of preventing self-harm, violence or sudden deterioration of health, it raises serious concerns regarding human dignity, privacy, data protection and non-discrimination. The project is grounded in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – in particular Articles 1 (human dignity), 7 (respect for private and family life), 8 (protection of personal data), 21 (non-discrimination), 23 (equality between women and men) and 25 (the rights of the elderly) – and strengthens the capacity of civil society, healthcare professionals and oversight bodies to apply the Charter in practice.
Main activities:
- Comparative legal and policy analysis
- Semi-structured, trauma-informed interviews and lived-experience stories
- Development of guidelines and local roundtables to validate them
- Awareness-raising activities
The project runs for 24 months, with activities taking place in all five partner countries: Czechia, Estonia, Slovakia, Latvia and Italy.
The project is co-funded by the European Union and the National Foundation of Civil Society in the amount of €5,985.00. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.