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Where have the Rights of Forensic Patients Gone?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
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- The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Treatment of Institutionalized Forensic Patients
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1 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, G.A. Res. 61/106, U.N. Doc. A/RES/61/106, art. 1 (Dec. 13, 2006) [hereinafter: CRPD].
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3 See, e.g., “Accessibility” and “Reasonable Accommodation” (Articles 9 and 2 of the CRPD, respectively).
4 CPRD, supra note 1, art. 1.
5 See, e.g., CPRD, supra note 1, arts. 3, 4, 8.
6 The following discussion is based on the CRPD’s negotiations archive, Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, available at http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1423
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10 This understanding was expressed by a few states representatives and the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee, and may also be understood from the statement of the WNUSP above.
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