Mental Health Resources

International standards relating to the right to physical and mental health listed in hierarchical order:

• Core International Human Rights Treaties
• International Human Rights Treaty Bodies
• Other Universal Standards
• Standards for specific groups
• International Humanitarian Law
• Regional standards

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR (1948) Article 25 (1)

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ICERD (1965) Article 5

International Human Rights Treaty Bodies

• General comment No. 14: The right to the highest attainable standard of health (2000)
• General Comment No 20: Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (2009)
• General Comment No. 22: sexual and reproductive health (2016)