A/HRC/44/48 (c) End the dismissal of alternative, rights-based support initiatives that are non-coercive and engender more dialogue as to how they too can be part of the change. 88. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the World Health Organization work with States through international cooperation and assistance to prioritize the following package of rights-based strategies: (a) Support the development of principles and best practices to implement a rights-based approach in mental health policies and services; (b) Offer support for the reform of discriminatory mental health laws and practices, including through a scaled-up roll-out of the QualityRights initiative; (c) Review the current essential medicines list of mental health medications (Nos. 24.1–24.4), with a view to removing the ones for which there is no evidence of an adequate risk/benefit profile; (d) Support the development of a new, holistic list of essential psychosocial and population-based interventions that are informed by evidence, supported and developed by participatory, rights-based principles and can more appropriately guide States towards full compliance with the right to health; (e) Commit to consistency in human rights action across the WHO broad portfolio of work to ensure that the principles and values of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the right to health enshrined in the WHO Constitution underpin and guide all technical assistance work, including developing global standards, measurements and guidelines on mental health. 20

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