Equality and Participation

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Official Materials

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 – Participation of people with disabilities through their representative organizations in law/policymaking and in implementation and monitoring of CRPD (2018)

CRPD General Comment No. 8 on Article 27, right to work and employment (2022) – useful on ending sheltered workshops, and consider arguing under indirect discrimination and reparations, for changes to hiring practices that discriminate against survivors of institutionalization

Equality and Non-Discrimination

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

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

CHRUSP comments on draft General Comment 6 on Article 5, equality and non-discrimination (2017)

Addendum to CHRUSP comments on draft General Comment 6 (2017)

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)

Political Participation

Reflections on Participation in Consultations (2010)

WNUSP on Political Participation and Legal Capacity (2011)

CHRUSP/Absolute Prohibition Campaign submissions to consultation on CRPD Article 4.3 (obligation to closely consult people with disabilities through their organizations when making law and policy) – Submission #1 and Submission #2

Allies

Stastny, Involuntary Psychiatric Interventions: Breach of Hippocratic Oath? (2000)

Graphic has a teal background, with red stylized brick pattern in the center, and darker teal together with red dots on darker and lighter teal pattern of snaky arrows going through the brick. Text reads: 'Over' (on left of brick with an arrow pointing right) 'Under' (on right of brick with an arrow pointing down) 'Around' and 'Through' on left and right of the brick with a snaky arrow joining them and pointing down. The arrow leading to 'Under' begins at 'Around' and snakes across and upward before pointing down. Under the brick is text in dark teal, 'Move past every barrier they build.'
by Ailsa Rayner