Soumitra Pathare, QualityRights Gujarat, discusses how mental health professionals need to engage with the political process of policy making, the important roles that Disabled People’s Organisations and civil society can play, and what we gain when we think about mental health as a human rights issue. This video was produced in Spring 2019, for DFID staff, as part of the K4D Learning Journey “Leave No One Behind”: Delivering on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for Mental Health and Psychosocial Disabilities.