The human rights violation of people who suffer from mental issues was recognized
by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The case Ximenes lopes Vs Brasil
has reveled in which ways the State, who should be the biggest guardian of this
groups’s rights, used do take actions of isolation, maltreatment in psychiatric
hospitals that didn’t respect the human dignity. The conditions in which the death of
Damião Ximenes Lopes happened, showed the inhuman and degrading actions that
were wrongly taken in our country. The Inter-American Court besides determining
the payment of pecuniary indemnity asked the Brazilian State to guarantee that
theses violations won’t happen again. The Federal Govern, because of theses facts,
has structured a process of uninstitutionalization of pacients in psychiatric
institutions, which has brought great advances, but hasn’t represented the real
necessity of people who need them. The evaluation of these programs reminds us
the fundamental discussion about how the Inter-American System of Human Rights
may supervise theses steps of non-repetition, contributing to a new view about
people with mental issues.
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