Mental health law and the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Szmukler, George; Daw, Rowena; Callard, Felicity

doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.11.024

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Mental health law and the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Published in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry • Nov 23, 2013

Authors:

George Szmukler

Rowena Daw

Felicity Callard

Abstract

People with a mental illness may be subject to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), depending on definitions of terms such as 'impairment', 'long-term' and the capaciousness of the word 'includes' in the Convention's characterisation of persons with disabilities. Part...

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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Mental health law

Legislation

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