World Federation for Mental Health
MEMBER ASSEMBLY ENDORSES UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH 
DISABILITIES

The WFMH Member Assembly, meeting in Hong Kong SAR China on August 20, 
2007, endorsed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons 
with Disabilities and urged national governments throughout the world to 
embrace and implement the provisions of the Convention.

(To view the full text of the Convention and other important 
information, visit http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=150)

The Resolution adopted by the WFMH Member Assembly, as submitted by its 
Voting Member organization Mental Health America (USA), reads as follows:

“WHEREAS the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus on 
December 13, 2006, a landmark treaty to promote and protect the rights 
of the world's 650 million people with disabilities; and

WHEREAS mental impairments are explicitly included in the treaty and are 
among the most prevalent and most disabling of all health conditions; and

WHEREAS the U N Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 
will require ratifying nations "to promote, protect and ensure the full 
and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all 
persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent 
dignity" and promote awareness of the capabilities of those who are disabled

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the World Federation for Mental Health 
support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with 
Disabilities.”

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