Declarations, Principles and Standards

(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 2, 1998)

Las organizaciones, asociaciones, autoridades de salud, profesionales de salud mental, legisladores y juristas reunidos en la conferencia Regional para la
Reestructuraci6n de la Atenci6n Psiquiátrica dentro de los Sistemas Locales de Salud.

Recommendation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Mentally Ill, (“persons with mental disabilities” as established by current international human rights standards)

(8 March 2002) The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the Special Rapporteurs on women’s rights of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights met for the first time on 28 February and 1 March 2002, in Montreal, at a meeting organized by Rights & Democracy. The Special Rapporteurs issued the following joint declaration:

Brasilia Declaration “Second Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a society for all ages and rights-based social protection.