The Mental Health Gap in South Africa – a Human Rights Issue
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چکیده
On 30 March 2007, South Africa became a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol.2 This was ratified several months later on 30 November 2007. The CRPD was negotiated during eight sessions of an Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly from 2002 to 2006 and adopted on 13 December 2006. To date, there have been 140 signatories to the CRPD (with 59 ratifications) and 83 signatories to the Optional Protocol (with 37 ratifications). The CRPD is intended as a human rights instrument with an explicit social development dimension and constitutes a significant global commitment to a human rights framework in which issues of achieving substantive equality and the full and unfettered rights of persons with disabilities are placed at centre-stage.
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