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Mental Health and Human Rights
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Which international legal instrument explicitly recognizes mental health as a human right?
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted in 2006, is the first international human rights treaty to explicitly recognize mental health as a human right. It requires states to take steps to ensure that persons with disabilities, including those with mental health conditions, enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with others.