United Nations
A/RES/58/132
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/497 (Part II))]
58/132. Implementation of the World Programme of Action
concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in
the twenty-first century
The General Assembly,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
reaffirming the obligations contained in relevant human rights instruments,
including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women 1 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2
Recalling also its relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 37/52 of
3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons, 3 resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities,
and resolution 56/115 of 19 December 2001, as well as the relevant resolutions of
the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions,
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted on
8 September 2000 by heads of State and Government at the Millennium Summit of
the United Nations, 4 stressing the need to promote and protect the full enjoyment of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities, and
recognizing the importance of incorporating the disability perspective in the
implementation of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and
summits, with a view to achieving the internationally agreed development goals,
including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,
Noting with appreciation the initiatives and actions of Governments to
implement relevant sections of the Standard Rules and of relevant resolutions that
give special attention to the questions of accessible environments and information
and communication technologies, health, education and social services, employment
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1
Resolution 34/180, annex.
Resolution 44/25, annex.
3
A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation I (IV).
4
See resolution 55/2.
2
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