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18 October 2012. Oliver Lewis, MDAC Executive Director, was a keynote speaker this week at the 2nd World Congress on Adult Guardianship, which took place on Monday and Tuesday in Melbourne, Australia.
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17 October 2012, Budapest. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) yesterday delivered its judgment in the case of Kedzior v. Poland, in which the applicant was represented by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw. The Mental Disability Advocacy Center submitted an independent third party intervention in the case.
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15 October 2012. The Mental Disability Advocacy Center has been actively involved in legal capacity law reform related advocacy activities in the Central and Eastern European Region in the last three weeks. This information bulletin focuses on developments in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
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Budapest 8 October 2012. The Mental Disability Advocacy Center and the Disability Rights Center call on the Hungarian government to overhaul the system in which people can be detained and forcibly treated with psychiatric medication. We make this request based on (1) the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which last month recommended that Hungary should, “ensure that health care services, including all mental health care services, are based on the free and informed consent of the person concerned.” And (2) because of a recent judgment by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
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