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influence within support arrangements, over a model based on the dominance of biomedical
interventions, coercion, medicalization and institutionalization;
8.
Calls upon States to abandon all practices and treatments that fail to respect
the rights, autonomy, will and preferences of all persons on an equal basis with others, and
that lead to power imbalances, stigma, discrimination, harm and human rights violations and
abuses in mental health settings;
9.
Also calls upon States to ensure that persons with mental health conditions or
psychosocial disabilities, including users of mental health services, have access to justice on
an equal basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate
accommodations;
10.
Urges States to address the underlying social, economic and environmental
determinants of health and to address holistically the range of barriers arising from inequality
and discrimination that impede the full enjoyment of human rights in the context of mental
health;
11.
Strongly encourages States to develop cross-sectoral strategies for the
promotion of mental health that include public policies to prevent inequality, discrimination
and violence in all settings and promote non-violent and respectful relationships between
members of societies and communities, and increase mutual trust between authorities,
individuals and civil society;
12.
Urges States to adopt prevention strategies to address depression and suicide,
such as public health policies that respect human rights and focus on tackling determinants,
enhancing life skills and resilience, promoting social connection and healthy relationships,
and avoiding overmedicalization;
13.
Calls upon States to take all the measures necessary to ensure that health
professionals provide care and support of the same quality to persons with mental health
conditions or psychosocial disabilities, in particular persons using mental health services, as
to others, including on the basis of free and informed consent by, inter alia, raising awareness
of the human rights, dignity, autonomy and needs of these persons through training and the
promulgation of ethical standards for public and private health care;
14.
Strongly encourages States to support persons with mental health conditions
or psychosocial disabilities to empower themselves in order to know and demand their rights,
including by promoting health and human rights literacy, to provide human rights education
and training for health and social workers, police, law enforcement officers, prison staff and
other relevant professions, with a special focus on non-discrimination, free and informed
consent and respect for the will and preferences of all, confidentiality and privacy, and to
exchange best practices in this regard;
15.
Encourages States to promote the effective, full and meaningful participation
of persons with mental health conditions or psychosocial disabilities and their organizations
in the design, implementation and monitoring of law, policies, services and programmes
relevant to realizing the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
of mental health;
16.
Recognizes the need to promote the mainstreaming of a human rights
perspective into mental health in all relevant public policies;
17.
Encourages States to provide technical support and capacity-building through
international cooperation to countries that develop and implement policies, plans, laws and
services that promote and protect the human rights of persons with mental health conditions
or psychosocial disabilities, in accordance with the present resolution, in consultation with,
and with the consent of, the countries concerned;
18.
Requests the High Commissioner to organize in 2021, and no later than the
seventy-fourth session of the World Health Assembly, a one-day consultation to discuss the
best ways to harmonize national laws, policies and practices relating to mental health with
the norms of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
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