Vulnerable children in Ireland have been subject to some of the gravest and systematic human rights violations in our history. Yet still today, we fail to fully protect the rights of children with mental health problems.
The current review of the Mental Health Act 2001 must place the rights and the wishes of the people who have experience of our mental health services at its core.
Ireland needs to urgently update its capacity law so it can ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Support us and write to the Minister calling for the new capacity law to honour human rights standards.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Ireland has signed but not ratified, identifies concrete steps that Governments can take to combat prejudice and discrimination and promote equality.
