Advocacy and rights
National Anti-Asylum Struggle Movement (MNLA)
Movimento Nacional da Luta Antimanicomial (MNLA)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
National psychiatric-reform movement consolidated in 1993 at its first national meeting in Salvador, bringing together psychiatric-service users, family members, and mental-health workers. Campaigns against asylum-based care and organized May 18 as Brazil's National Anti-Asylum Struggle Day.
- Focus
- Mad Pride and psychiatric survivors
- Leadership
- Mixed leadership
- Where
- In person and online
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Since
- 1993
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Verified 2026-09-08 from pt.wikipedia.org. Added 2026-09-08 by the editorial team.
Note: National movement with no fixed headquarters or independent website; located at the city of its founding national meeting (Salvador, 1993). Has an active Facebook page (mnlaemluta) that could not be verified via automated request from this network. Explicitly composed of 'usuários, familiares e trabalhadores' (users, family members, and workers).
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