A/HRC/41/34 the human rights of all members of a family and should exclude measures that undermine the rights of any individual; (e) Address bullying with an ecological, public health approach that values and fosters non-violent relationships and engages children, schools, families and communities to end this harmful practice; (f) Adopt prevention strategies to address depression and suicide through a modern public health approach that focuses on tackling determinants, enhancing life skills and resilience, promoting social connection and healthy relationships, and avoiding excessive medicalization; (g) Assign high priority to developing accessible public health interventions to prevent or reduce violence in all its forms, including as part of a core package of services provided within universal health coverage; (h) Address the fact that violence, institutionalization and other forms of coercion are unacceptably widespread in mental health-care systems, often in the name of treatment, in the case of persons who are diagnosed with mental health conditions, doing more harm than good; (i) Refrain from and prevent xenophobic action and rhetoric inciting intolerance against persons in vulnerable situations, including people on the move and persons who are discriminated against by law and in practice. 97. With regard to the promotion of accountability and measuring progress, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States develop a more holistic set of indicators to measure progress in the full realization of the right to mental health, including: (a) Performance indicators on the reduction of coercion, institutionalization and excessive medicalization, and on the sustainable funding of rights-based alternatives to a biomedical framework and the use of coercion; (b) initiatives; Participatory indicators on the funding of user-led and other civil society (c) Cross-sectoral indicators on the coordination and integration of the promotion of mental health in education, housing and employment. 19

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