International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law: When the Silenced Are Heard

by Michael L. Perlin

Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities. Despite a robust set of international law principles, standards and doctrines, and the recent ratification of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, people with mental disabilities continue to live in some of the harshest conditions that exist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195393236
• ISBN13: 9780195393231
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"