Women in development 2015, para. 50

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Encourages Governments and all sectors of society to take sustainable measures to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work on an equal basis and without discrimination against persons with disabilities, including by promoting access to inclusive education systems, skills development and vocational and entrepreneurial training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum independence, as noted in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as well as 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, and notes the need to strengthen efforts aimed at addressing the rights and needs of women and children with disabilities;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Year
2015
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Women in development (2015), A/RES/70/219, OP 50.
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OP
Paragraph number
50