A/HRC/40/54 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur ............................................................................................. 3 A. Country visits ........................................................................................................................ 3 B. Engagement with stakeholders ............................................................................................. 3 C. Communications ................................................................................................................... 4 III. Deprivation of liberty of persons with disabilities ........................................................................ 4 IV. Underlying causes of disability-specific forms of deprivation of liberty ...................................... 7 V. Right to liberty and security of persons with disabilities .............................................................. 10 A. Universal recognition of the right to personal liberty ........................................................... 10 B. Normative content of article 14 of the Convention ............................................................... 11 C. Impact of the Convention on international and regional standards ....................................... 13 Ending deprivation of liberty on the basis of disability ................................................................. 15 A. Law reform ........................................................................................................................... 15 B. Deinstitutionalization ............................................................................................................ 15 C. Ending coercion in mental health ......................................................................................... 16 D. Access to justice ................................................................................................................... 16 E. Community support .............................................................................................................. 17 F. Participation .......................................................................................................................... 17 G. Capacity-building and awareness-raising ............................................................................. 18 H. Resource mobilization .......................................................................................................... 18 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 18 VI. VII. 2