On 11 and 12 May 2018, the Di Liegro Foundation participates in the national meeting "Rights, Freedoms and Services" promoted byUnasam (National Union of Mental Health Associations), on the occasion of the forty years of the Basaglia law.
Approved on 13 January 1978, law 180 sanctioned the closure of mental asylums, bringing the inmates back to the outside world, restoring rights, dignity and citizenship to people with mental disorders.
A "revolutionary" regulation that has become a reference in the world for those who work in mental health.
Even today, although hindered, implemented only partially and even betrayed, the Basaglia law is a powerful engine of transformation of the institutions for the affirmation of the civil and social rights of the most fragile subjects.
The full implementation of law 180 - comments Luigina Di Liegro, president of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Foundation - requires a new impetus, a renewed attention to the problems of mental health. It's not just about strengthening and redeveloping mental health services. We need to bring the issue of the rights of people with mental suffering and their families back into the cultural and political debate of the country."
