A/RES/79/172
Human rights in the administration of justice
with interest the convening of and reports on all relevant meetings and panel
discussions on these issues held by the Human Rights Council; 35
36. Calls upon States to take effective and appropriate measures to remove all
barriers preventing persons with disabilities from having effective access to justice
on an equal basis with others and without discrimination;
37. Encourages States to ensure equal access to justice for persons with
disabilities through the provision of accessible information and communications,
physical accessibility to relevant premises, gender- and age-appropriate
accommodations that take into account their will and legal counselling, and, where
applicable, free or subsidized and accessible legal aid, and to deploy efforts to enable
the meaningful and equal participation of persons with disabilities throughout all
stages of the judicial process;
38. Calls upon States to ensure effective access to justice for persons with
disabilities when investigating, prosecuting and punishing persons responsible for
human rights violations and abuses committed against them, including by providing
effective remedies, taking into consideration, on an equal basis with others, the
specific circumstances of the person with disabilities, as well as by implementing
systemic changes, legal and policy reforms and capacity-building where needed in
order to ensure non-repetition;
39. Invites States to provide for tailored and interdisciplinary human rights
training, including anti-racist, anti-discriminatory, multicultural, disability-inclusive,
gender-sensitive and child rights training, as well as on the implications of the use of
digital technologies, including artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, in
the field of criminal justice in this regard, to all judges, lawyers, prosecutors, social
workers, immigration, corrections and police officers and other professional s
concerned, including personnel deployed in international field presences;
40. Also invites States, upon their request, to benefit from technical advice and
assistance provided by the relevant United Nations entities and programmes in order
to strengthen national capacities and infrastructures in the field of the administration
of justice;
41. Invites the Office of the High Commissioner and the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime to reinforce their technical assistance to States, upon request and
in accordance with their respective mandates, to strengthen the national capacity building of States in the field of the administration of justice, in particular in post conflict situations and in relation to the application of digital technologies, and in this
context to strengthen cooperation with relevant United Nations entities;
42. Underlines the importance of rebuilding and strengthening structures for
the administration of justice and of respecting the rule of law and human rights,
including in post-conflict situations, as a crucial contribution to building peace and
justice and ending impunity, and in this respect requests the Secretary-General to
further streamline and strengthen system-wide coordination and coherence of
programmes and activities of the relevant parts of the United Nations system,
including through the Rule of Law Coordination and Resource Group chaired by the
Deputy Secretary-General, the Rule of Law Unit in the Executive Office of the
Secretary-General and the Global Focal Point for the Rule of Law;
43. Invites States, in the context of the universal periodic review mechanism
and in their reports under international human rights treaties, as well as through their
voluntary national reviews of progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
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