UN Enable Newsletter (2008) – the first UN document, though informal, acknowledging CRPD supersedes the pro-force Principles on the Rights of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care – see advocacy here and here

Special Rapporteur on Torture, Report on Torture and Persons with Disabilities (Nowak Report 2008) – first formal UN document to acknowledge CRPD prohibits forced psychiatry, and that it may constitute torture or other ill-treatment see advocacy here

OHCHR Information Note on Detention and Persons with Disabilities (2008)

OHCHR Study on Legal Measures to Ratify and Implement CRPD (2009) (see especially paragraphs 43-47 on legal capacity, and 48-49 on liberty) – see advocacy here

Early CRPD Committee Concluding Observations –  Tunisia /   Spain /  Peru /  Argentina / China + correction / China-Hong Kong / Hungary / Paraguay  / El Salvador  /  Austria  /  Australia  (2010 – 2013) for later ones see CRPD Sessions database and IDA compilations – early COs are valuable to show development of the standards, especially on Articles 12 and 14

UN OHCHR Guide to Monitoring CRPD (2010) (English pdf) (English word) (Spanish pdf)

Special Rapporteur on Torture Annual Report (2010) – see paragraph 202, case from Norway

Rashida Manjoo Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, August 2012 Report and Statement at side event – see advocacy here

Special Rapporteur on Torture, Report on Torture in Healthcare Settings (Mendez, 2013) – this report advanced the standard in some respects while the Rapporteur also backtracked and aligned with the psychiatric industry, original advocacy here and here, detail provided below:

• Report
• Statement to Human Rights Council – English / español
• WNUSP response to Mendez report and statement
• Side event presentation
• Compilation of responses to Mendez report – includes his deferential reply to psychiatric associations, and Tina Minkowitz article among many others

Special Rapporteur on Torture, Report on Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners (2013) – see advocacy here and more on Advocacy and Scholarship page

CRPD Committee General Comment No. 1 on Article 12 (legal capacity) (2014) and Correction (2018) – clarifies that CRPD completely prohibits legal incapacitation and substitute decision-making, see advocacy here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here

OHCHR Study on Article 19 Living Independently and Being Included in the Community (2014)

UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on remedies and procedures against arbitrary detention (Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – 2015) – see advocacy here

CRPD Guidelines on Article 14 (2015)

OHCHR Background Note and Conclusions from Expert Meeting on Liberty and Security of the Person (2015)

Revised Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners (2016) – NB, we achieved minor success but continues to authorize involuntary mental health transfers, see my analysis and background on process

CRPD General Comment No. 3 on women with disabilities (2016)

OHCHR Report on human rights and mental health (2017) – see advocacy here

CRPD General Comment No. 5 on Article 19, living independently and being included in community (2017) – requires immediate release of people deprived of liberty in mental health settings, see advocacy here

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Urgent Appeal in case of forced psychiatry (2017)

Special Rapporteur on Health, Report on the right to mental health (Dainius Pūras, 2017) – valuable for critique of forced psychiatry, but see Tina’s comment on weaknesses, and note Pūras’ Handover Dialogues (2020) stronger on abolition

CRPD General Comment No. 6 on Article 5, equality and non-discrimination (2018)

CRPD General Comment No. 7 on Articles 4.3 and 33.3 (2018) – participation in consultations, instrumental to abolitionist advocacy by survivors, see advocacy here and here

Special Rapporteur on Torture (2020) – report on psychological torture, see mainly para 37 recapitulating standard that forced psychiatric interventions for supposed ‘best interest’ ‘may well amount to torture’ – see Tina’s comment here

CRPD Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization (2022) – comprehensive approach to deinstitutionalization with reparations, crisis support must be de-medicalized and non-coercive – see especially paragraphs 10, 13, 15, 31, 32, 55, 58, 76 and section IX on reparations – see advocacy here, here, here, and here, material specifically on crisis support here and here, and Tina’s subsequent commentary