The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 16
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- Effective and meaningful participation is at the core of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This was demonstrated by the unprecedented involvement of civil society, particularly persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, in the processes of drafting and negotiating the Convention. Since the beginning of the debates, the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities was encouraged to adopt working methods that would allow full participation by relevant NGOs in its deliberations. In what was a remarkable procedural innovation, the Ad Hoc Committee allowed representatives of NGOs to speak in all its public meetings, and in its informal and closed meetings. Furthermore, the Ad Hoc Committee included 12 representatives of NGOs, designated by representative organizations of persons with disabilities and their allies, in the Working Group in charge of drafting the text. The General Assembly encouraged Member States to involve persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the preparatory processes contributing to the work of the Ad Hoc Committee and to include persons with disabilities in their official delegations. Importantly, NGOs were actively supported and funded so that they could participate in the negotiations.
- 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
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Disability, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/62, para. 16.
- Paragraph number
- 16
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