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Joe Kelly is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues.

Joe Kelly charts the progress of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

12 April 2010

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In March 2009 I attended the World Network of Service Users and Survivors of Psychiatry [WNUSP] Conference in Uganda, Africa. The main business of the conference was the CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This Convention was originally signed in the United Nations, New York in 2007. Since then I have been tracing its progress through our own system. It has been ratified by our government and recently I attended a conference by the Office for Disability Issues [ODI] at...

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