A/RES/72/162 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 25 January 2018 Seventy-second session Agenda item 72 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2017 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.1)] 72/162. Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities The General Assembly, Recalling its previous relevant resolutions, the most recent of which was resolution 70/145 of 17 December 2015, as well as relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council and of the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions, Recalling also the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights and fundame ntal freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be guaranteed the full enjoyment of their rights and freedoms without discrimination, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 3 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 5 and all other relevant international human rights instruments, Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 6 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 7 the Beijing __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 17-22971 (E) Resolution 217 A (III). United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910. Ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910. Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531. A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 301217 *1722971*

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