Post by flyingcarpet46 on May 27, 2022 22:00:29 GMT
Affadavit of Tina Minkowitz in a New York Court in an attempt to get the UN CRPD into the laws of NY.
I am an attorney licensed to practice in the state of New York since 2007.
My professional work has focused on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a core human rights treaty of the United Nations, which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 13,2006 and entered into force on May 3, 2008. My knowledge of the CRPD derives from an involvement in its drafting and in subsequent work on its implementation and monitoring at the international level, both before and after my admission to the bar. In particular, i participated in a 40member working group that developed a draft text for negotiation, and represented the World Network of Users and Survivors of psychiatry (wNUSp) and the International Disability Caucus throughout the drafting and negotiation process. I have contributed as an invited expert to bodies including the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, the committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the office of the High commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, and the open-Ended working Group on Ageing. Continuing to represent WNUSP (the lnternational Disability Caucus became inactive upon the conclusion of the negotiations), I have made numerous written submissions and spoken interventions to UN mechanisms on the rights of persons with disabilities. I have presented lectures and workshops on the CRPD throughout the world, and provide information and resources through a non-profit organization that I founded in2009, the Center for the Human Rishts of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
This affidavit aims to set out international law regarding the prohibition of nonconsensual psychiatric interventions. Such a prohibition is derived from an application of the principle of non-discrimination based on disability to universally recognized human rights to equal recognition before the law, to liberty and security of the person, freedom from torture and ill-treatment and free and informed consent in health care, which has as its corollary the right to refuse treatment. This analysis has itself come into international law in the provisions ofthe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in the application of this Convention by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a group of independent experts authorized to make recommendations for its implementation.
I am an attorney licensed to practice in the state of New York since 2007.
My professional work has focused on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a core human rights treaty of the United Nations, which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 13,2006 and entered into force on May 3, 2008. My knowledge of the CRPD derives from an involvement in its drafting and in subsequent work on its implementation and monitoring at the international level, both before and after my admission to the bar. In particular, i participated in a 40member working group that developed a draft text for negotiation, and represented the World Network of Users and Survivors of psychiatry (wNUSp) and the International Disability Caucus throughout the drafting and negotiation process. I have contributed as an invited expert to bodies including the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, the committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the office of the High commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, and the open-Ended working Group on Ageing. Continuing to represent WNUSP (the lnternational Disability Caucus became inactive upon the conclusion of the negotiations), I have made numerous written submissions and spoken interventions to UN mechanisms on the rights of persons with disabilities. I have presented lectures and workshops on the CRPD throughout the world, and provide information and resources through a non-profit organization that I founded in2009, the Center for the Human Rishts of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
This affidavit aims to set out international law regarding the prohibition of nonconsensual psychiatric interventions. Such a prohibition is derived from an application of the principle of non-discrimination based on disability to universally recognized human rights to equal recognition before the law, to liberty and security of the person, freedom from torture and ill-treatment and free and informed consent in health care, which has as its corollary the right to refuse treatment. This analysis has itself come into international law in the provisions ofthe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in the application of this Convention by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a group of independent experts authorized to make recommendations for its implementation.