The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) is an international human rights treaty, which sets out the fundamental human rights for persons with disabilities. Issued in 2006, the Convention aims to promote, protect, and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities and proposes a paradigm shift from “substitute decision-making” to “supported decision-making”. Alongside the CRPD, a committee of the UN produced the General Comment no. 1, in which some of the articles are addressed in detail, and strict interpretations of the articles are provided, fueling a hot debate in the psychiatric community. The present chapter offers a summary of the strengths and the limitations surrounding the convention and its interpretations.
Ethics in Psychiatry
Silvana Galderisi;Noemi Sansone;Antonio Melillo
2025
Abstract
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) is an international human rights treaty, which sets out the fundamental human rights for persons with disabilities. Issued in 2006, the Convention aims to promote, protect, and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities and proposes a paradigm shift from “substitute decision-making” to “supported decision-making”. Alongside the CRPD, a committee of the UN produced the General Comment no. 1, in which some of the articles are addressed in detail, and strict interpretations of the articles are provided, fueling a hot debate in the psychiatric community. The present chapter offers a summary of the strengths and the limitations surrounding the convention and its interpretations.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
