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Mental Health & Social Work
2010 Volume.35 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.50
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Fundamental Human Rights and the Persons with Mental Disorders
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Kang Hee-Won
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Abstract
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A recent medical and social statistics has reported the shocking reality that one in four korean people will suffer from mental illness at some point in their whole lives. The person with mental disorder is subject to prejudice, discrimination and marginalization in almost all aspects of their social lives, labeled as "crazy guy". The social realties are impregnated quite strongly in the legal schemes and practices of korean mental health law, even though human rights are guaranteed as the basic right equally for all people in Korea’s constitutional law. This article is treating Korea’s current legal situations for persons with mental disorders as the problem of the Human Rights. Commonly defined, Human Rights are the rights that belong to an individual or group of individuals as a consequence of being human. The Human Rights Problem of the social weak has been remarkable during recent years. So the issue of human rights of the persons with mental disorders has been made of a very important part of this problem. It belongs to the fundamental human rights of the persons with mental disorders to request the unjust discrimination prohibition and the appropriate socal welfare. So especially the unjust discrimination against the people on the grounds of mental disorder should be a violation of human rights.
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KEYWORD
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persons with mental disorders, mental disorder, human rights, fundamental human rights, human rights violation, social welfare, social welfare movement, social welfare rights, social
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