Disability-specific instruments (Draft Article 9)
Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care
Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, forty-sixth session, Resolution 46/119 of 17 December 1991
1. Every patient in a mental health facility shall, in particular, have the right to full respect for his or her:
(a) Recognition everywhere as a person before the law;
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