Bibliographic citations
García, A., (2024). Internamiento Involuntario y Discapacidad Mental desde la óptica del Tribunal Constitucional y según La Convencion de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad [Trabajo académico, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27448
García, A., Internamiento Involuntario y Discapacidad Mental desde la óptica del Tribunal Constitucional y según La Convencion de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad [Trabajo académico]. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27448
@misc{renati/527195,
title = "Internamiento Involuntario y Discapacidad Mental desde la óptica del Tribunal Constitucional y según La Convencion de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad",
author = "García Manchego, Ana Lucia",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2024"
}
The purpose of this academic paper is to analyze some of the latest judicial rulings issued by the Peruvian Constitutional Court regarding the “involuntary commitment” of people with mental disabilities, taking as its main basis the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” and current Peruvian regulations. As we well know, discrimination against this vulnerable group has been and is an inherent reality in societies around the world and historically present in various aspects of the life of those who suffer from it. It is much bigger when we talk about those who have been diagnosed with a mental illness, because they suffer marginalization based on stigmas and prejudices that exist around them, as they represent danger for others. Thus, the restriction of freedom of people with mental disabilities is allow with the purpose of guarantee that the rights of others don’t be affected. But, forgetting that these kinds of restriction unleash many types of abuses toward them unguarded and leaving aside the protection of their human rights. Also, it has been possible to notice in the rulings of the Peruvian Constitutional Court the logic that assume that people with mental disabilities have not the capacity to take their own decisions, even if it is related to an essential right like health. And that begins in the family because these are the ones who attribute the power of take decisions instead of them and this happen by the biases that exist there and in our justice operators and that affect their rights such as freedom, health, integrity, and human dignity.
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