Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.38.3.7
LEGAL PROTECTION OF OLDER PERSONS (INCLUDING ELDERLY WITH MENTAL DISORDERS) FROM THE CROATIAN PERSPECTIVE: WHY WE NEED A SPECIAL UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE OLDER PERSONS
Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička
; Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Stjepan Šikoronja
Abstract
In this paper, authors point to the inconsistencies in the internationally
recognized human rights field. The paper is based on the claim that all vulnerable groups, such as the older persons, children and people with disabilities, deserve increased social protection of their rights and interests. On the UN level, by means of special Conventions, protection is provided to children and people with disabilities, but not to older persons. Therefore, the authors analyze whether, from the perspective
of the Republic of Croatia, there is a need to support the drafting and adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of the Older Persons. Additionally, the article presents the current state of regulation of special rights of elderly persons at the international, European and national level. At the same time, the
authors discuss the relevant judgments of the European Court of Human Rights when addressing the main problems encountered by the older persons, especially those with mental disorders, in the Republic of Croatia. Based on an analysis of the current situation, the authors propose what potentially potential rights the UN Convention on the Rights of the Older Persons could or should contain.
Keywords
the notion of the older person; the regional and international regulation of the rights of the older persons; the violation of the rights in the Republic of Croatia; the practice of the European Court for Human Rights; the codification of the rights of the older persons at the United Nations level
Hrčak ID:
193715
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2017.
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