Annex IV: Useful references
International and regional standards
• UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Guidelines on the right to liberty and security (art. 14),
2015: www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRPD/GC/
GuidelinesArticle14.doc
• UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Basic Principles an
Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone
Deprived of His or Her Liberty by Arrest or Detention to Bring
Proceedings Before Court, 2015: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/
Issues/Detention/Pages/DraftBasicPrinciples.aspx
• OHCHR, Compilation of international standards on the right to
liberty and security of persons with disabilities (Background
note for OHCHR expert meeting of 8-9 September 2015):
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/Pages/
deprivationofliberty.aspx
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), CPT standards
(for standards related to psychiatric establishments, see pages
48 onwards): http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/docsstandards.htm
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Principles
and Best Practices on the Protection of Persons Deprived of
Liberty in the Americas (see especially Principle III.3 on special
measures for persons with mental disabilities): http://www.oas.
org/en/iachr/mandate/Basics/principlesdeprived.asp
• African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Draft
protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
on the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa (adopted by
the Commission in 2016 but pending adoption by the States of
the African Union): http://www.achpr.org/files/news/2016/04/
d216/disability_protocol.pdf
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