Psychosocial disability and deprivation of liberty: reviewing the case of Qatar in the light of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
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Psychosocial disability and deprivation of liberty: reviewing the case of Qatar in the light of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
Citation:
Cuenca Gómez, P., Barranco Avilés, M. del C., & Rodríguez del Pozo, P. (2018). Psychosocial Disability and Deprivation of Liberty: Reviewing the case of Qatar in the light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law , 24, p. 55-77.
Sponsor:
This paper was made possible by the NPRP award NPRP-7-380-5-051 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of The Qatar Foundation).
Keywords:
CRPD
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Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
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Art 14 Qatar
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Legal system
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Liberty
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Security
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Law No.16 Of 2016 on rights of patients with mental illness
This paper analyses the main implications of the prohibition of deprivation of liberty on the basis of disability in the field on mental health under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its impact in Qatar’s legal system. It shows theThis paper analyses the main implications of the prohibition of deprivation of liberty on the basis of disability in the field on mental health under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its impact in Qatar’s legal system. It shows the contradiction between the specific regimes of deprivation of liberty of persons with psychosocial disabilities and Article 14 of the Convention. The paper also proposes some changes in Qatar’s system to ensure that persons with psychosocial disabilities enjoy the right to liberty on equal terms with others.[+][-]