Rights of persons with mental disabilities

Osobe s duševnim smetnjama su bili segregacijski tretirani, često smještani u institucije, kao uobičajen način skrbi o njima. Po prvi puta u povijesti, prava osoba s invaliditetom uključujući osobe s duševnim smetnjama su prepoznata i integrirana u Konvenciju o pravima osoba s invaliditetom, Ujedinjenih Naroda, 2006. godine. Dio inicijative integracije osoba s duševnim smetnjama u društvo, je priznanje njihovih jednakih prava pred zakonom, uživanje pune poslovne sposobnosti u svim područjima života, i deinstitucionalizacija koja zauzima svoje mjesto u omogućavanju njihovog punog sudjelovanja u društvu. Hrvatska vlada je preuzela mnoge obveze s ciljem kreiranja socijalnih politika, promjena u zakonodavstvu i promociji prava osoba s duševnim smetnjama u čiji proces je potrebno uložiti još više napora kako bi se promijenili, prilagodili, da bi se prava osoba s duševnim smetnjama prestala kršiti. Ova pitanja se ne tiču samo onih na koje se direktno odnose, osobe s duševnim smetnjama, ona utječu na sve nas. Kao društvo dvadeset i prvog stoljeća, ta pitanja su naša refleksija, kako je loše imati mnoge ove naše sugrađane diskriminirane na svim nivoima.People with mental disabilities have been treated with a segregated approach to care, often being placed in mental institutions. For the first time in history, the rights of people with disabilities, including mental disabilities, were recognized and integrated in to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006. As part of the initiative to integrate people with mental disabilities into mainstream society, who have the right to recognition everywhere as persons equal before the law, enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life, and deinstitutionalization is taking place, to allow them full participation in society. Croatian government has undertaken a number of obligations in order to create social policies, introduce changes to legislation and to promote the rights of people with mental disabilities, but who requires even more effort to change and adapt, to stopped violating the rights of people with mental disabilities.These issues do not only concern those that they directly impact, namely people with mental disabilities, but they impact all of us. As a society in the twenty-first century, it is a poor reflection on our advancement to have many of our own citizens discriminated against and treated with prejudices at many levels