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Oct 6, 2020 · This inhumane practice—called “shackling”—exists due to inadequate support and mental health services as well as widespread beliefs that stigmatize people with psychosocial disabilities....
verb [ T ] uk / ˈʃæk. ə l / us / ˈʃæk. ə l / If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do: The country is shackled by its own debts. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Lack of freedom to act. be in bondage to something idiom. be locked in something. bondage. bound. boxed in. disempowering.
Oct 6, 2020 · The practice known as 'shackling' is commonplace in 60 countries across the world, and sees adults and children as young as 10 restrained or locked up for days, weeks and even years at a time, charity Human Rights Watch has found.
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one of a pair of metal rings connected by a chain and fastened to a person’s wrists or the bottoms of the legs to prevent the person from escaping: The prisoner was led away in shackles. shackle. verb [ T ] us / ˈʃæk·əl /
1. a. : to bind with shackles : fetter. b. : to make fast with or as if with a shackle. 2. : to deprive of freedom especially of action by means of restrictions or handicaps : impede.
Oct 6, 2022 · In Indonesia, “pasung” (shackling) refers to restricting the movement of people with mental disorders, according to a 2017 health minister regulation on managing the phenomenon. The most common...
noun. 1. (often plural) a metal ring or fastening, usually part of a pair used to secure a person's wrists or ankles; fetter. 2. (often plural) anything that confines or restricts freedom. a country ready to throw off the shackles of its colonial past. 3. a rope, tether, or hobble for an animal.
