rights of people with mental disabilities
rights enshrined in the United Nations Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons With Disabilities (1993), including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These include (a) the right to receive proper medical care, physical therapy, education, training, rehabilitation, assistive technology, and guidance; (b) the right to economic security and to work; (c) the right to live with their families or with foster parents or, if this is not feasible, to live in a residential setting under circumstances as close as possible to family life; and (d) the right to protection from abuse and exploitation. See also United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons.