The initiative offers a new approach to mental health care that is rights based and recovery oriented. Freedom from coercive interventions, respect for the right to legal capacity, and promotion of autonomy, choice, community inclusion and recovery are at the core of the initiative. The five main objectives of the initiative are to increase capacity to understand and promote human rights, recovery, and independent living in the community; create community-based and recovery-oriented services that respect and promote human rights; improve the quality of care and human rights conditions in mental health and related services; develop a civil society movement to influence policy making and advocate for the integration of a human rights approach in mental health; and reform national policies and legislations in line with the CRPD and other international human rights standards. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30271-7/fulltext?elsca1=etoc www.peoplewho.org