INTERNATIONAL LEGAL LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION AND REALIZATION OF RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

• Main Authors: Sedžad Milanović, Elvira Sefer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Human Rehabilitation 2011-12-01
• Series: Human Research in Rehabilitation
• Subjects: protection; rights; persons with mental disorders
• Online Access: https://human.ba/wpdm-package/full-text-21/?wpdmdl=647

The legal regulation of the persons with mental disabilities their support primarily finds in international legal acts of which provisions each state by their free determination incorporate into their regulations and coordinate them with the national legal norms. The persons with the mental disabilities are the persons with some degree of mental retardation who in greater or lesser extent are not able to independently take care of the realization and protection of their rights. Bosnia and Herzegovina, though it is a signatory of a great number of the international legal acts for the protection of the persons with mental disabilities, contrary to the international modern standards, has a very few institutes in which are placed in the aforementioned persons, in order to be treated, rehabilitated and engaged in the social life.