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• Dignity and Justice for Detainees Week, October 6-12, 2008.
  • Information Note No. 1: Detention and Human Rights: General and Legal Aspects
  • Information Note No. 4: Persons with Disabilities
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, unanimously adopted by the General Assembly on December 13, 2006
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Implementation Manual for the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, by the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, February, 2008.
  • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, from the Perspective of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, by Myra Kovary, the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP).
  • The United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons With Disabilities and the Right to be Free from Nonconsensual Psychiatric Interventions, by Tina Minkowitz, Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce, Vol. 34:405 (2007).
  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Its Implementation and Relevance for the World Bank, June 2007.
  • Principles for Implementation of CRPD Article 12
  • International Disability Allisance Position Paper on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Other Instruments
• Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, to United Nations General Assembly, July 28, 2008.
  • Tina Minkowitz PowerPoint on Forced interventions and institutionalization as torture/CIDT from perspective of people with disabilities
  • Tina Minkowitz PowerPoint of presentation on the CRPD, Forced Treatment and Alternatives, Norway, January, 2009.
  • Model UN Complaint Form for the (1) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (2) Convention against Torture, or (3) International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
  • July 15, 2008, e-mail from Tina Minkowitz on filing Torture Complaints for psychiatric drugging and electroshock to the United Nations.
• Human Rights and psychiatry (Part 2 of 2): Who speaks for the chained and incarcerated?  ABC's All In the Mind, December 15, 2007.  14 Megabytes.
• Declaration of Dresden Against Coerced Psychiatric Treatment, June 7, 2007.
• Draft Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Draft Optional Protocol (August 2006)
• Submission to the Committee Against Torture For its consideration of the report of the United States of America, April 10, 2006, Prepared by Tina Minkowitz on behalf of the New York Organization For Human Rights and Against Psychiatric Assault and Mind Freedom International
• Alternative Report On Force Drugging, Forced Electroshock And Mental Health Screening Of Children: Violation Of Article 7,   Submission of the Disability Working Group To the Human Rights Committee, Prepared by Tina Minkowitz and Al Galves, with the assistance of Celia Brown, Myra Kovary and Eve Remba on behalf of:
  • New York Organization For Human Rights and Against Psychiatric Assault
  • Mind Freedom International
  • Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
  • WILD for Human Rights
• Comments of the U.S. NGO Disability Working Group Related to Consideration of the Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States to the Committee on Civil and Political Rights,  (En Espańol)17 March 2006, Submitted on behalf of:
  • Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
  • Mind Freedom International
  • National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
  • National Council on Independent Living
  • New York Organization For Human Rights and Against Psychiatric Assault
  • Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
  • Self Advocates Becoming Empowered

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