Rights based Rights based approach and approach and mental illnessmental illness

D M NaiduD M Naidu

Basic Needs IndiaBasic Needs India

Rights based approach Rights based approach and mental illnessand mental illness

• Communities and families play a vital Communities and families play a vital role in persons with mental illness role in persons with mental illness exercising their rights and exercising their rights and discharging their dutiesdischarging their duties

• Community members should respect Community members should respect and ensure rights of persons with and ensure rights of persons with mental illnessmental illness

Rights based Rights based approach approach

and mental illnessand mental illness• Right to gender equalityRight to gender equality• Right to information and education Right to information and education

(nature of illness, healing options and (nature of illness, healing options and care needs)care needs)

• Right to choice, informed consent Right to choice, informed consent including ‘refusing treatment’including ‘refusing treatment’

• Right to accessibility and availability Right to accessibility and availability of various healing facilities as close as of various healing facilities as close as possible to where they live in possible to where they live in

Rights based Rights based approach approach

and mental illnessand mental illness• Right to inclusion: to form support Right to inclusion: to form support

groups/join associations, to include in groups/join associations, to include in development processes, to join all development processes, to join all walks of life with dignity and without walks of life with dignity and without any stigma and discriminationany stigma and discrimination

• Right to family: intimate relationships, Right to family: intimate relationships, sexual relationships, marriage, sexual relationships, marriage, parenting and living with childrenparenting and living with children

Rights based approach Rights based approach and mental illnessand mental illness

• Right to food security (nutritious food)Right to food security (nutritious food)• Right to free environment and bodily Right to free environment and bodily

integrityintegrity• Right to liberty: optimum participation, Right to liberty: optimum participation,

free movement, and least restrictive free movement, and least restrictive environmentenvironment

• Right to well-being: play, recreation, Right to well-being: play, recreation, leisure activities, participation in social & leisure activities, participation in social & cultural functions in the community & cultural functions in the community & spiritualityspirituality

Rights based approach Rights based approach and mental illnessand mental illness

• Right to socio economic security: Right to socio economic security: poverty alleviation & employment, poverty alleviation & employment, vocational training, entrepreneurship, vocational training, entrepreneurship, alternative employment, housing, alternative employment, housing, insurance, etc.insurance, etc.

• Right to owning property, with provision Right to owning property, with provision for necessary assistance depending on for necessary assistance depending on the level of incapacity/disability the level of incapacity/disability determining through standard protocolsdetermining through standard protocols

Rights based approach Rights based approach and mental illnessand mental illness

• Right to protection of law against all Right to protection of law against all discriminatory practicesdiscriminatory practices

• Right to political participation: to Right to political participation: to vote and contest elections at vote and contest elections at community and higher levels, be a community and higher levels, be a member of statutory bodiesmember of statutory bodies

Rights based approach Rights based approach and mental illnessand mental illness

Let us build healthy Let us build healthy communities!communities!

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