Recommendations, Principles and Declarations

 

United Nations

 

UN Declaration on the Rights of the Mentally Retarded Persons

UN Declaration on the Rights of the Disabled Persons

UN Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

Documents of the Special Rapporteur relating to the promotion and monitoring of the Standard Rules

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 14 (2000) of the right to the highest attainable standard of health

 

Council of Europe

 

WHO GETS TO DECIDE? Right to legal capacity for persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, Commissioner for Human Rights, Strasbourg 20 February 2012

Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)14 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the participation of persons with disabilities in political and public life

Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on deinstitutionalisation and community living of children with disabilities

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1934 (2010) on child abuse in institutions: ensuring full protection of the victims 

Council of Europe Recommendation on psychiatry and human rights

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1642/2009 entitled “Access to rights for people with disabilities and their full and active participation in society

Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)11of the Committee of Ministers to member states on principles concerning continuing powers of attorney and advance directives for incapacity

Recommendation Rec (2004)10of the Committee of Ministers to member states concerning the protection of the human rights and dignity of persons with mental disorder

The Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006-2015

1999 Committee of Ministers Recommandation No. R (99) 4 on Principles Concerning the Legal Protection of Incapable Adults

Persons with mental disabilities should be assisted but not deprived of their individual human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

A neglected human rights crisis: persons with intellectual disabilities are still stigmatized and excluded, Thomas Hammarberg, Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Human Rights and Disability: Equal rights for all, Thomas Hammarberg, Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

 

European Union

 

European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: A Renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe 

European Pact for Mental Health and Well-Being

European Parliament resolution of 19 February 2009 on Mental Health

Green Paper, Improving the Mental Health of the Population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union

European Disability Strategy 2010-2020

 

World Health Organization (WHO)

 

World Report On Disability, 2011

Mental Health Gap Action Programme

Guidelines for the Promotion of Persons with Mental Disorders

WHO Resource on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation and WHO Checklist on Mental Health Legislation

International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF)

 

 

 

 

 

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