The Assembly reiterates the urgent need for the Council of
Europe, as the leading regional human rights organisation, to fully
integrate the paradigm shift initiated by the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) into its work.
It thus recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
2.1 support member States in their
development, in co-operation with organisations of persons with disabilities,
of adequately funded, human rights-compliant strategies for deinstitutionalisation
with clear time frames and benchmarks with a view to a genuine transition
to independent living for persons with disabilities in accordance
with Article 19 of the CRPD;
2.2 prioritise support to member States to immediately start
transitioning to the abolition of coercive practices in mental health
settings, and to child-centred, human rights-compliant deinstitutionalisation
of children with disabilities;
2.3 in line with the unanimously adopted
Recommendation 2158 (2019), refrain
from endorsing or adopting draft legal texts which would make successful
and meaningful deinstitutionalisation, as well as the abolition
of coercive practices in mental health settings more difficult,
and which go against the spirit and the letter of the CRPD – such
as the draft additional protocol to the Convention for the protection
of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the
Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights
and Biomedicine (ETS No. 164, Oviedo Convention) concerning the protection
of human rights and dignity of persons with regard to involuntary
placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare services.
