Mbuen, Eyong, Maglajlic, Reima and Lewis, Oliver (2014) The right to legal capacity in Kenya. Project Report. Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest.

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Abstract

The report highlights the voices of people with mental disabilities themselves for the first time, outlining the need for substantial legal and social reform, and provides comprehensive recommendations to bring Kenya in line with international law, and specifically right to legal capacity guaranteed by Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Item Type:	Reports and working papers (Project Report)
Keywords:	kenya, africa, legal capacity, crpd
Schools and Departments:	School of Education and Social Work > Social Work and Social Care
Subjects:	H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV0040 Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Including social case work, private and public relief, institutional care, rural social work, work relief R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine > RA0790 Mental health. Mental illness prevention
Related URLs:	http://www.mdac.info/en/kenya
Depositing User:	Pascale Fanning-Tichborne
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2014 10:25
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2014 10:25
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48143

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