Resources
Information for Human Rights Advocates
Basic UN materials on CRPD and human rights
Text of Disability Convention and Optional Protocol (pdf) / Disability Convention(html) / Optional Protocol(html)
Human Rights Instruments of the United Nations (website)
Reporting Guidelines for Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (English) (Spanish)
Special Rapporteur on Torture, Report on Torture and Persons with Disabilities
OHCHR Study on Legal Measures to Ratify and Implement CRPD
UN OHCHR Guide to Monitoring CRPD (English pdf) (English word) (Spanish pdf)
General Materials
IDA Position Paper - CRPD and Other Disability-Related Instruments
WNUSP CRPD Implementation Manual
CRPD and Prohibition of Psychiatric Violence
WNUSP Position Paper on CRPD Implications about Forced Treatment (pdf) (word)
Minkowitz, Prohibition of Compulsory Mental Health Treatment and Detention Under the CRPD
WNUSP: Legal Capacity as Right, Principle and Paradigm (Submission to CRPD Committee)
CHRUSP Paper - Why Mental Health Laws Contravene the CRPD (pdf) (word version) - seeking endorsements
WNUSP Submission on Harmful Cultural Practices
See also materials under Forced Psychiatric Interventions as Torture
Materials on legal capacity, including its relevance to stopping force and coercion in mental health:
Legal Opinion on CRPD Article 12 / Opinion Legal sobre Articulo 12
IDA Principles for the Implementation of Article 12
IDA on Functional Capacity / IDA sobre Capacidad Funcional
Norms and Implementation of Article 12
WNUSP: Legal Capacity as Right, Principle and Paradigm (Submission to CRPD Committee)
The Paradigm of Supported Decision-Making
La capacidad legal inherente y la toma de decisiones con apoyo
CHRUSP Analysis of Hague Convention on International Protection of Adults
WNUSP on Political Participation and Legal Capacity
Materials on forced psychiatric interventions as torture:
Minkowitz, The UN CRPD and the Right to be Free from Nonconsensual Psychiatric Interventions
Forced interventions and institutionalization as torture/CIDT from perspetive of people with disabilities (presentation to OHCHR seminar on torture and persons with disabilities)
IDA/WNUSP/CHRUSP Recommendations for OPCAT Monitoring of Psychiatric Institutions
Special Rapporteur on Torture Annual Report - see paragraph 202, case from Norway
Materials on liberty:
OHCHR Information Note on Detention and Persons with Disabilities
See also OHCHR Study on Legal Measures (paragraphs 48-49)
CHRUSP Paper - Why Mental Health Laws Contravene the CRPD (pdf) (word version) - seeking endorsements
Prison issues
WNUSP position paper on prison and mental health
WNUSP submission for revision of UN Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners
Daniel Hazen presentation on mental health, criminal justice and trauma
Forced Psychiatry as Violence against Women
WNUSP/CHRUSP Submission on Violence Against Women with Disabilities
WNUSP submission on Harmful Cultural Practices
CHRUSP paper on Forced Psychiatry as Violence Against Women
INWWD paper on Violence Against Women with Disabilities
