General Information

  • Glossar 
  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disablities (CRPD) of December 2006 (trilingual from BGBl II) 
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, General comment No. 1 (2014), Article 12: Equal recognition before the law, Eleventh session, 31 March–11 April 2014)  
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Guidelines on article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to liberty and security of persons with disabilities,  Adopted during the Committee’s 14th session, held in September 2015 
  • Yokohama Declaration of Oktober 2010  
  • New! Draft of the revised and amended version of the Yokohama Declaration, July 2016
    • International part 
    • Japanese Part 
  • Germany: Legal Protection of Adults in Germany – An Overview, by Volker Lipp (Germany) 
  • Germany: Going Private: "Vorsorgevollmacht" as an Alternative to Legal Guardianship for Adults, by Volker Lipp (Germany / Comparative) 
  • Germany: Supported Decision-making and the German "Law of BETREUUNG"
    Legal perspective on supported and substitute decision-making regarding Art. 12 CRPD, by Dagmar Brosey (Germany)  
    in: Coester-Waltjen/Lipp/Waters (eds.), Liber Amicorum Makato Arai, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2015, pp. 125 ff.
  • Switzerland: A new Law for the protection of adults, by Ingeborg Schwenzer and Tomie Keller (Switzerland) 
    in: The International Survey of Family Law, Wellington, New Zealand, 2013, S. 375-386
  • Austria: Austrian Guardianship Law – status 2016 and upcoming reform, by Michael Ganner