United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/229
Distr.: General
27 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 109 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/556/Add.2 and Corr.1-3)]
57/229. Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on Protection and Promotion
of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/168 of 19 December 2001, by which it established
the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention
on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities,
as well as Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/61 of 25 April 2002 on the
human rights of persons with disabilities 1 and Economic and Social Council
resolution 2002/7 of 24 July 2002 on a comprehensive and integral international
convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities
and Council resolution 2002/26 of 24 July 2002 on the further promotion of
equalization of opportunities by, for and with persons with disabilities and
protection of their human rights,
Stressing the importance of the active participation of non-governmental
organizations in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee and the important contribution
of non-governmental organizations to the promotion of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities,
Underlining the fact that the consideration of proposals for a convention
should complement concrete efforts to mainstream further the disability perspective
into the implementation of international obligations and into the monitoring
mechanisms of the six core United Nations human rights conventions, as well as
into the process of implementing and strengthening the Standard Rules on the
Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities,2
Welcoming the work of national, regional and international meetings of
Governments, experts, and non-governmental organizations that contributed to the
work of the Ad Hoc Committee,
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1
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2002/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
Resolution 48/96, annex.
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