Tina Minkowitz is a lawyer and a survivor of forced psychiatric interventions.  She contributed to the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which sets a new standard in international law that requires the abolition of any forced or non-consensual interventions in mental health settings. She is the founder & current president of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, an organization that advocates and conducts capacity-building activities at national and international levels to promote abolition, collaborates with partners throughout the world in these activities, and contributes to the ongoing development of this standard by the UN.