Mental Disability, International Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach (Seminar, London, 2nd April 2014)

Mental Disability, International Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach: Searching for the Foundations

The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Institute of Pyschiatry

Wednesday, 2 April 2014 from 16:00 to 18:00 (BST)

London, United Kingdom

Date: Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Time: 16.00-18.00
Place: Strand Campus, Moot Court, Dickson Poon School of Law, London, SW1.18
Organisers: The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Institute of Psychiatry, as part of the Psychiatry/Law Seminar Series

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is being increasingly emphasised by the WHO and other international organisations. This seminar will consider some of the fundamental issues raised by the Convention, particularly in the context of global mental health.

‘The Capabilities Approach and Health’, by Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram, Lecturer in Global Health and Philosophy, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine.

Response by Professor Ricardo Araya, Professor of Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Centre for Global Mental Health.

Chair, Professor Genevra Richardson, Professor of Law, Dickson Poon School of Law.

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