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Where have the Rights of Forensic Patients Gone?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Maya Sabatello
Maya Sabatello*
Affiliation:
Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. Email comments to: ms4075@columbia.edu
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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Treatment of Institutionalized Forensic Patients
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 109 , 2015 , pp. 77 - 80
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

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].

2 Gerard Quinn & Theresia Degener, Human Rights and Disability, UN HR/PUB/02/1 (2002), available at http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HRDisabilityen.pdf; O’Cinneide, Colm, Extracting Protection for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from Human Rights Frameworks: Established Limits and New Possibilities, 163, in The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives (Arnardoóttir, O.M. & Quinn, G., eds., 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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

7 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), 52, U.N. Doc. A/6316, art. 9 (1966).

8 Working Group, Daily Summary Related to Draft Article 10 — Liberty and Security of the Person (Jan. 14, 2004), available at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/wgsuma10.htm.

9 NHRI Response to the Questions Proposed by the Chair on Monitoring, seventh session of the Ad-Hoc Committee (Jan. 31, 2006), available at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahc7nhri.htm.

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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14 Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General Comment 1 – Article 12: Equal Recognition Before the Law, CRPD/C/GC/1 (Apr. 11 2014), available at http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRPD/C/GC/1&Lang=en.