A/RES/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
to ensure that any medical procedure or intervention is not performed prior to the free
and informed consent of women and girls with disabilities;
16. Urges States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination
against persons with disabilities, in particular women and girls in situations of risk,
including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence
of natural disasters, to address violence against women and girls, providing timely
and appropriate reintegration and rehabilitation assistance to persons with disabilities
while ensuring that their specific needs are addressed, such as access to health -care
services, psychosocial support and educational programmes;
17. Calls upon States to realize the right to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive
health, for women and girls with disabilities on an equal basis with all others, in
particular by providing access to inclusive and accessible disability-, gender- and ageappropriate information, support and reasonable accommodation so that they can
access quality and affordable and universally designed health facilities, and urges
Governments to promote and protect the human rights of all women and girls,
including the right of women to have control over and decide freel y and responsibly
on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of
coercion, discrimination and violence, and to adopt and accelerate the implementation
of laws, policies and programmes that protect and enable their enjoyment of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms, including reproductive rights, in accordance with
the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, 7 the Beijing Platform for Action 9 and the outcome documents of their
review conferences, on an equal basis with others;
18. Also calls upon States to accelerate efforts to scale up scientifically
accurate age-appropriate comprehensive education that provides adolescent girls and
young women with disabilities, in and out of school, in a manner consistent with their
evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal
guardians, with information in accessible and alternative communication formats on
sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and women’s empowerment, human
rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships
between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and informed decisionmaking, communication and risk reduction skills and develop respectful
relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians,
caregivers, educators and health-care providers;
19. Further calls upon States to collect and analyse data disaggregated by
income, sex, race, age, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and
other characteristics relevant to national contexts to assist with the identification and
eradication of barriers and all forms of discrimination, especially multiple and
intersecting forms of discrimination, that prevent women and girls with disabilities
from enjoying all the rights stipulated in the Convention, and to guide policy planning
and improve data collection systems for adequate monitoring and evaluation
frameworks on the implementation of the Convention and t he Sustainable
Development Goals in relation to women and girls with disabilities;
20. Urges States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human
rights institutions, to continue to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities in
the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by, inter alia,
supporting the disaggregation of data by disability, sex and age for specific indicators,
on the basis of the Washington Group short set of questions on disability and other
data collection methodologies, where relevant, to assist States in measuring the
achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 associated targets and
programming policies in the context of the Goals;
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