Департамент исполнения постановлений
Европейского суда по правам человека

On 27 March, the Committee of Ministers’ Presidency of Liechtenstein, in collaboration with the Department for the Execution of Judgments, organised a High-Level Conference, “’Of Unsound Mind’: Convention-compliant approaches to the execution of judgments concerning involuntary detention and treatment on mental health grounds”, which took place in Strasbourg and was broadcast online.

The High-Level Conference was opened by Marc Cools, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Ambassador Domenik Wanger, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the Council of Europe and President of the Ministers’ Deputies, as well as Christos Giakoumopoulos, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law.

It included speakers such as mental health practitioners working in both in-patient and community settings, persons with lived experience, representatives of national human rights institutions and of civil society, as well as national and Council of Europe experts. It was attended by officials and experts from government ministries and other national authorities, Permanent Representatives to the Council of Europe and members of the national preventive mechanisms.

The presentations and exchanges which followed outlined the relevant legal standards regarding rule of law safeguards and conditions in institutions. They exemplified through inspiring Convention-compliant practices how national authorities and stakeholders can approach legislative and policy-making processes and the implementation of the legal and policy frameworks and highlighted where the authorities can draw support from in order to make practical and effective the protection afforded by these standards.

 Watch the Conference

 Interventions of the speakers

 Webpage of the Conference