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19.
Also requests the High Commissioner to provide the above-mentioned
consultation with all the services and facilities necessary to fulfil its activities, including by
making the discussions fully accessible to persons with disabilities;
20.
Further requests the High Commissioner to invite to the consultation Member
States and all other stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds
and programmes, in particular the World Health Organization, the special procedures of the
Human Rights Council, in particular the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the Special
Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities and the Special Rapporteur on torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the treaty bodies, national
human rights institutions and civil society;
21.
Requests the High Commissioner to invite persons with mental health
conditions or psychosocial disabilities, including persons using mental health services, and
their organizations, and to ensure their active participation in the consultation, mindful of the
central role they play and their historical exclusion from decision-making processes;
22.
Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on the outcome of
the consultation, with recommendations for States and all other relevant stakeholders,
including health professionals, on ways to harmonize, as appropriate, laws, policies and
practices relating to mental health with the norms of the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities and on how to implement them, and to present the report to the Human
Rights Council at its forty-ninth session;
23.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
44th meeting
19 June 2020
[Adopted without a vote.]
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