Translation of "mentally disabled person " (English → French) :

20. Welcomes the fact that Croatia was among the first countries to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; encourages the Croatian authorities to implement the existing measures and to adopt additional, concrete and transparent plans to reform institutionalisation and legal capacity as well as to address the issue of the growing number of mentally disabled persons living in overcrowded institutions rather than communities in order to fully ensure the legal and human rights of people with disabilities; since the Convention explicitly recognises the basic right of mentally disabled p ...[+++]ersons to live in a community, recommends the Croatian authorities to make reforms consistent with this provision by providing alternative care options; encourages Croatia further to enforce the relevant legal provisions on access to public buildings for persons with disabilities;

19. Welcomes the fact that Croatia was among the first countries to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; encourages the Croatian authorities to implement the existing measures and to adopt additional, concrete and transparent plans to reform institutionalisation and legal capacity as well as to address the issue of the growing number of mentally disabled persons living in overcrowded institutions rather than communities in order to fully ensure the legal and human rights of people with disabilities; since the Convention explicitly recognises the basic right of mentally disabled p ...[+++]ersons to live in a community, recommends the Croatian authorities to make reforms consistent with this provision by providing alternative care options; encourages Croatia further to enforce the relevant legal provisions on access to public buildings for persons with disabilities;

20. Welcomes the fact that Croatia was among the first countries to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; encourages the Croatian authorities to implement the existing measures and to adopt additional, concrete and transparent plans to reform institutionalisation and legal capacity as well as to address the issue of the growing number of mentally disabled persons living in overcrowded institutions rather than communities in order to fully ensure the legal and human rights of people with disabilities; since the Convention explicitly recognises the basic right of mentally disabled p ...[+++]ersons to live in a community, recommends the Croatian authorities to make reforms consistent with this provision by providing alternative care options; encourages Croatia further to enforce the relevant legal provisions on access to public buildings for persons with disabilities;

The EU monitoring and advocacy programme of the Open Society Institute has stated that there is a total absence of reliable, comprehensive data on mentally disabled persons in Romania, which has contributed to a general lack of public attention to people with intellectual disabilities.

24. Draws attention to the urgent need to protect people with a learning disability whose living and care conditions still are not satisfactory, in particular disabled persons with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems living in residential care; calls for immediate action by the Romanian Government to dismantle the large residential institutions for disabled persons in favour of smaller, community-based residential services with substantial earmarked funding support from the C ...[+++]ommission; stresses however the vital need to take all necessary measures to implement the 2002 Law on Mental Health and Protection of People with Psychological Disorders;

Mr. Eugène Bellemare: It is possible that former psychiatric facilities residents may be included in the mentally disabled person category.