At its 52nd session, the UN Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to organise a one-day consultation and to prepare a comprehensive report on the challenges and best ways to implement at local, national, and regional levels enabling normative and policy measures for the realization of the human rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities and current or potential users of mental health services.

It also requested the High Commissioner, in his report, to include suggestions of policy tools for the implementation of a human rights perspective to mental health, and to present the report to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-eighth session.

New Script and PPR made this submission in response to a request for input. It focuses on two specific areas input was requested on, as follows:

(d) Suggestions of other policy tools for the implementation of a human rights perspective to mental health mindful of the centrality of mental health for the full realization of the right to health. The focus here in on Give 5: Steps to a Wellbeing Rights Framework.

(e) Disaggregated data on persons with psychosocial disabilities and current or potential users of mental health service, as well as mental health services, including community-based services.  The focus here is on the lack of comprehensive, accurate, disaggregated data on mental health, and the repeated calls by various bodies for government to address this failure of transparency and accountability.

Read and download our submission here.