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Disabilities in influencing the promotion, formulation and evaluation of the policies,
plans, programmes and actions at the national, regional and international levels to
further equalize opportunities for persons with disabilities,
(g) Emphasizing the importance of mainstreaming disability issues as an
integral part of relevant strategies of sustainable development,
(h) Recognizing also that discrimination against any person on the basis of
disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person,
(i)
Recognizing further the diversity of persons with disabilities,
(j) Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all
persons with disabilities, including those who require more intensive support,
(k) Concerned that, despite these various instruments and undertakings,
persons with disabilities continue to face barriers in their participation as equal
members of society and violations of their human rights in all parts of the world,
(l) Recognizing the importance of international cooperation for improving
the living conditions of persons with disabilities in every country, particularly in
developing countries,
(m) Recognizing the valued existing and potential contributions made by
persons with disabilities to the overall well-being and diversity of their
communities, and that the promotion of the full enjoyment by persons with
disabilities of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and of full participation
by persons with disabilities will result in their enhanced sense of belonging and in
significant advances in the human, social and economic development of society and
the eradication of poverty,
(n) Recognizing the importance for persons with disabilities of their
individual autonomy and independence, including the freedom to make their own
choices,
(o) Considering that persons with disabilities should have the opportunity to
be actively involved in decision-making processes about policies and programmes,
including those directly concerning them,
(p) Concerned about the difficult conditions faced by persons with
disabilities who are subject to multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination on the
basis of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national,
ethnic, indigenous or social origin, property, birth, age or other status,
(q) Recognizing that women and girls with disabilities are often at greater
risk, both within and outside the home, of violence, injury or abuse, neglect or
negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation,
(r) Recognizing that children with disabilities should have full enjoyment of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children,
and recalling obligations to that end undertaken by States Parties to the Convention
on the Rights of the Child,
(s) Emphasizing the need to incorporate a gender perspective in all efforts to
promote the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons
with disabilities,
(t) Highlighting the fact that the majority of persons with disabilities live in
conditions of poverty, and in this regard recognizing the critical need to address the
negative impact of poverty on persons with disabilities,
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