Pathare Soumitra, Shields Laura, Sagade Jaya, Nardodkar Renuka
Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune, India, email
Mental Health Law and Policy Action Lab (Indian Law Society and VU University Amsterdam collaboration), Pune, India.
Int Psychiatry. 2014 Feb 1;11(1):1-2. eCollection 2014 Feb.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) serves as a comprehensive and legally binding framework for the rights of persons with mental illness. The extent to which countries have adapted their mental health legislation to reflect the binding provisions outlined in the CRPD is unclear. This paper reviews the situation across the Commonwealth.
《联合国残疾人权利公约》(CRPD)是关于精神疾病患者权利的全面且具有法律约束力的框架。各国在何种程度上调整其精神卫生立法以体现CRPD中概述的具有约束力的条款尚不清楚。本文审视了英联邦国家的情况。