Certain forms of abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of mistreatment that is tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 61
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Numerous calls by the mandate to review the anti-torture framework in relation to persons with disabilities remain to be addressed. It is therefore necessary to reaffirm that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities offers the most comprehensive set of standards on the rights of persons with disabilities, inter alia, in the context of health care, where choices by people with disabilities are often overridden based on their supposed "best interests", and where serious violations and discrimination against persons with disabilities may be masked as "good intentions" of health professionals (A/63/175, para. 49).
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment