Draft additional protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services

Request for an opinion | Doc. 16117 | 18 February 2025

Author(s):

Committee of Ministers

Contents

Letter from the Secretary to the Committee of Ministers to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly (Strasbourg, 6 February 2025)

Appendix 1– Draft Additional Protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services

Appendix 2– Draft explanatory report to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental health care services

Letter from the Secretary to the Committee of Ministers to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly (Strasbourg, 6 February 2025)

Please find enclosed the draft additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (ETS No. 164) concerning the protection of the human rights and dignity of persons with regards to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services and its draft Explanatory Report (documents CM(2022)14-add1 and CM(2022)14-add2 respectively), which the Ministers’ Deputies agreed at their 1518th meeting (5 February 2025) to transmit to the Parliamentary Assembly for opinion as soon as possible. […]

Signed:

Zoltan Taubner, Secretary to the Committee of Ministers

Appendix 1 – Draft Additional Protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services

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Appendix 2 – Draft explanatory report to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental health care services

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