ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an evaluative framework that examines whether the law reform in China has taken a step closer to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities approach. Since the Second World War, international human rights law has grown rapidly as a response to the massive human rights violations which occurred during the war. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were adopted between the 1940s and the 1960s as the ‘International Bill of Human Rights’, recognising a wide range of human rights. The MI Principles are particularly worth reviewing, as they have formed the basis of many other international standards or guidance of mental health and human rights. Facing the heated debate around the legitimacy of involuntary interventions and substituted decision-making, States Parties and scholars working in this field have sought to find a middle ground.
