Chapter Seven Footnotes

1E/CN.4/2005/51, 11 February 2005, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Paul Hunt, page 7.

2See the United States Supreme Court decision of Olmsted v. LC 527 US 581 (1999).

3See for example, Amnesty International (2003) Bulgaria, Far from the Eyes of Society: Systematic Discrimination against People with Mental Disabilities, London, Amnesty International and Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC) (2003) Cage Beds, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Four Accession Countries, Budapest, MDAC.

4 Progress of efforts to ensure the full recognition and enjoyment of the human rights of persons with disabilities, Report of the Secretary-General, United Nations, General Assembly, A/58/181, July 2003, paragraphs 20 & 21 (‘the UN Report’), available at http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disa58181e.htm.

5Office of the Commissioner of Human Rights, The Protection and Promotion of the Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities, Conclusions, CommDH(2003)1, February 2003, available at
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Commissioner_H.R/Communication_Unit/CommDH%282003%291_E%20.doc.

6See Article 1

7As of July 23, 2008, there were 30 ratifications of the Convention. Please see: http://www.un.org/disabilities/ for an update.

8E/CN.4/2005/51, 11 February 2005, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Paul Hunt, paragraph 43.

9Report of 11th February 2005 to the United Nations General Assembly, E/CN.4/2005/51, available at http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G05/108/93/PDF/G0510893.pdf?OpenElement.

10World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2001, Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope.

11Ibid.

12Ibid.

13UNICEF Innocenti Centre, Innocenti Insight, Children and Disability in Transition in CEE/CIS and Baltic States, 2005, available at www.unicef.org.ceeis/Disability-eng.pdf.

14Mansell J, Knapp M, Beadle-Brown J and Beecham J (2007) Deinstitutionalization and community living – outcomes and costs`; report of a European Study Volume 2: Main Report. Canterbury: Tizard Centre, University of Kent.

15Freyhoff G, Parker C, Coue M, and Grieg N (2004) Included in Society, Results and Recommendations of the European Research Initiative on Community-based Residential Alternatives for Disabled People, Brussels 2004

16This refers to the 1996 Revised European Social Charter.