CHRUSP Advocacy Archive

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CHRUSP message for International Human Rights Day December 10, 2009

CHRUSP et al recommendations for OPCAT monitoring of psychiatric institutions (2010) – monitoring of psychiatric institutions has to address unlawfulness of regime of discriminatory detention and forced interventions

CHRUSP paper on Forced Psychiatry as Violence Against Women (2010)

CHRUSP letter on first CRPD Concluding Observations (2011)

CHRUSP-WNUSP Submission to Day of General Discussion on Article 12 (n.d., likely 2011)

WNUSP/CHRUSP submission to OHCHR for study on violence against women with disabilities, documenting forced psychiatry legislation and practices (2011)

Minkowitz/CHRUSP, Why Mental Health Laws Contravene the CRPD (2011) – widely endorsed position paper clarifying that any approach to authorizing forced psychiatry is contrary to CRPD

CHRUSP Comments on CRPD and Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults (2011)

CHRUSP letter to CRPD Committee on Concluding Observations (2012)

CHRUSP submission to CRPD Committee on Accessibility (for Article 9 General Comment) (2012)

WNUSP/CHRUSP submission on SMR revision (2012)

WNUSP/PANUSP/CHRUSP statement to 2nd meeting on SMR revision (2012)

WNUSP/CHRUSP submission to Special Rapporteur on Torture, on the Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners (2013)

WNUSP/CHRUSP submission to OHCHR consultation on rights of older persons and short version (2013)

RIADIS/WNUSP/CHRUSP recommendations to OAS for Draft Text on Rights of Older Persons, to Conform to CRPD English y Español (2013)

CHRUSP submission to Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Intersection between Women’s Oppression and Psychiatric Oppression (2013)

WNUSP/CHRUSP January 2014 Submission on Revision of the Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners (2014)

WNUSP/CHRUSP How can a revised Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners best reflect up to date international law on the rights of persons with disabilities? (2014)

CHRUSP Submission to OHCHR on implementing human rights in relation to mental health (2016)

CHRUSP submission to OHCHR on equality and non-discrimination (2016)

CHRUSP submission to CEDAW Consultation on draft Update of General Recommendation No. 19 (violence against women) (2016)

CHRUSP submission to Day of General Discussion on Article 19 pdf and word (2016)

CHRUSP comments on Human Rights Committee draft General Comment on right to life, from gender and disability perspective (dealing with abortion rights, and suicide) (2016)

CHRUSP submission for CRPD Day of General Discussion on Article 5, equality and non-discrimination (2017)

CHRUSP Comments on draft General Comment No. 6 on Article 5, equality and non-discrimination (2017)

Addendum to CHRUSP Comments on draft General Comment No. 6 (2017)

CHRUSP submission to Special Rapporteur on Rights of Persons with Disabilities on disability-based detention in the United States (2017) – in response to request for submissions on national practices

CHRUSP submission on access to justice for disability-related arbitrary detention and torture (2017) – arguing that access to justice is not only procedural, has to be capable of ending the violations

CHRUSP Third-Party Intervention in Daniels v Australia under CRPD Optional Protocol (n.d., likely 2017)

CHRUSP work on Indicators:

Alternative Declaration at 5th World Congress on Guardianship (2018)

CHRUSP/Absolute Prohibition Campaign submissions to consultation on Article 4.3 – Submission #1 and Submission #2 (2018)

CHRUSP Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on the right to health (2018)

CHRUSP Submissions to 9th session Open Ended Working Group on Ageing – on the designated topics Autonomy and Independence, Long-term and Palliative Care, and normative standards on Equality and Non-discrimination and on Violence, Neglect and Abuse (2018)

CHRUSP Statements to 9th OEWG on Ageing – General Debate, Autonomy and Independence, Long-term Care and Palliative Care, and Normative Standards on Equality and Non-discrimination and on Violence, Neglect and Abuse (2018)

Minkowitz, Support in Crisis to Replace Forced Psychiatry (slides, CHRUSP side event CRPD Committee) (2019)

CHRUSP/WNUSP Joint Intervention at COSP (2019) – addressing crisis support based on Articles 12 and 19

CHRUSP Submission to 10th OEWG on Ageing – Joint submission by European Network on Independent Living and CHRUSP on Normative Elements for Autonomy and Independence (2019)

CHRUSP Statements to 10th OEWG on Ageing – General Debate and Normative Content (commenting on DESA/OHCHR normative summary on Autonomy and Independence) (2019)

Minkowitz/CHRUSP amicus brief to Colombia’s Constitutional Court supporting Ley 1996 on legal capacity reform (2020)

CHRUSP third-party intervention to European Court of Human Rights on draft Oviedo Protocol (2020) and in Spanish

CHRUSP Briefing paper on involuntary commitment Prohibition of Involuntary Hospitalization and Involuntary Treatment: Countering Misapprehensions (2020)

Minkowitz, Fusion Laws and CRPD: Compatible or Not? (CHRUSP webinar) (2020)

CHRUSP Deinstitutionalization Briefing Paper (2020) – our first advocacy for the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization

Joint statement on COVID-19 and people with psychosocial disabilities (in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-traditional) (2020)

CHRUSP submission to CRPD for General Comment on Art 27, right to work and employment and freedom from forced labor (2021)

CHRUSP comments on draft General Comment 8 on Art 27 (2021)

CHRUSP statement to the Caribbean and North American regional consultation on deinstitutionalization (2021)

CHRUSP comments on Draft Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization (2022)

CHRUSP side event at CRPD Conference of States Parties on Reparations for Institutionalization (video recording) (2022) – in English, Spanish, Chinese and French

CHRUSP Comments on WHO/OHCHR draft Guidance on Mental Health-Related Legislation (2022)

Minkowitz/CHRUSP amicus brief to Mexico’s Supreme Court (2023) English and Spanish auto-translate – in deinstitutionalization case, arguing for systematic ending of involuntary mental health measures and guarantees of non-repetition

CHRUSP Submission to OEWG on Ageing – Identification of Possible Gaps and How to Address Them (2023)

Minkowitz, Notes for Consultation on Care and Support of Older Persons (2024)

CHRUSP submission to OHCHR consultation on human rights and mental health (2024) English and Spanish

CHRUSP submission to Special Rapporteur on Torture, on victim’s experiences and perspectives (2025)

CHRUSP Recommendations to Avoid Replicating Coercion in Crisis Support (2026)

Statements at UN Meetings

CHRUSP statement to CRPD Committee August 2020

CHRUSP statement in Conference of States Parties General Debate 2021 – in Spanish

CHRUSP statement to CRPD Committee March 2022

CHRUSP statement in Conference of States Parties General Debate 2023 – in memory of Jolijn and for reparations

CHRUSP statement to CRPD Committee August 2024

Regional

RIADIS/WNUSP/CHRUSP recommendations to OAS for Draft Text on Rights of Older Persons, to Conform to CRPD English y Español (2013)

International Solidarity

CHRUSP Analysis of Ghana Mental Health Bill (n.d.)

CHRUSP Comments on Philippines Draft Mental Health Act (n.d.)

CHRUSP letter of solidarity to Australian users and survivors (2011)

United States

CHRUSP and others advocacy on CRPD ratification without any reservations, understandings or declarations (RUDs):

Joint disability community report and Summary by ADAPT, CHRUSP, Nationwide Organizing Call to Action: Stop Forced “Mental Health” Treatment, Not Dead Yet, Self Advocates Becoming Empowered, The Opal Project, and The U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (2010)

CHRUSP statement in opposition to expanded outpatient commitment laws in New York and California (2012)

CHRUSP campaign to Stop Psychiatric Profiling and letter to President Obama on this issue (2013)

Advocacy for the UN Human Rights Committee periodic review of the United States in 2012-2013:

CHRUSP initial submission to Human Rights Committee (2012)
Questions suggested by CHRUSP
Summary of our submission in English and Spanish
Presentation to Human Rights Committee March 18, 2013
CHRUSP et al shadow report to Human Rights Committee on forced drugging in the US and Executive Summary (2013) – Submitted by: CHRUSP, Victorious Black Women, PsychRights, MindFreedom International, Campaign to Repeal Mental Health Laws, Intentional Peer Support, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, International Disability Alliance

Report to the Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination on forced psychiatry and psychiatric abuse against African Americans as intersectional discrimination based on race and disability (2014) – Campaign to Repeal Mental Health Laws, M.O.M.S. – Movement Of Mothers and others Standing Together, Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights), Victorious Black Women, MindFreedom International, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and International Disability Alliance

CHRUSP information submitted to Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on involuntary commitment (2016)

CHRUSP response to Working Group on Arbitrary Detention report (2017)

See also US CRPD Advocacy page for more detail