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Open meeting of the MHE Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health

“ Mental health and wellbeing in the society and in the environment of the person with mental health problems. Requirements and general conditions. ”. Open meeting of the MHE Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health. The MHE-SME Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health.

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Open meeting of the MHE Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health

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  1. “Mental health and wellbeing in the society and in the environment of the person with mental health problems. Requirements and general conditions.” Open meeting of the MHE Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health

  2. The MHE-SME Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health

  3. Universal Declaration of Human Rights “These rights belong to you. They are your rights. Familiarise yourself with them. Help to promote and defend them for yourself and for your fellow human beings.” United Nations 10 December 1948

  4. Human rights and mental health Many of the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are particularly relevant to mental health. People must, by law, be protected from ‘inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’. ‘Everyone … apart from ‘persons of unsound mind’ … has the right to liberty and security of person’ … ‘Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life’ … Everyone has the right “not to be subject to discrimination in enjoyment of other Convention rights”

  5. Human rights and mental health But these rights are under threat…

  6. “inhumane and degrading treatment”

  7. “stigma and myths”

  8. The MHE-SME Committee on Human Rights and Mental Health

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