Mandate, working methods, work plan for the mandate 2015, para. 18
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- As highlighted in the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has the unique strength of being a human rights instrument with a development perspective, equally protecting the rights of all persons with disabilities in all parts of the world. The Special Rapporteur sees this dual approach as a concrete result of how the disability work within the United Nations has been built up, with strong participation from stakeholders from the global South, and as a tool for promoting sustainable development, based on the standards, norms and principles of human rights, and inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur embodies the added value of working towards sustainable development from a human rights-based approach, as described in Human Rights Council resolution 26/20. In this spirit, the Special Rapporteur wishes to capitalize on both the human rights and the development agendas, to address the real challenges that persons with disabilities face in their everyday lives, in which the two cannot be separated: in situations of extreme poverty and exclusion, deprived of their most basic rights and too often with a precarious standard of life.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Disability, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/28/58, para. 18.
- Paragraph number
- 18
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