A/RES/79/149 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 December 2024 Seventy-ninth session Agenda item 26 (b) Social development: social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, persons with disabilities and the family Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2024 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/79/450, para. 39)] 79/149. Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 77/189 of 15 December 2022 and its previous relevant resolutions, including those on all relevant internationally agreed development goals, as well as relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council and of the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions, and stressi ng the need for their full application and implementation for and with persons with disabilities, in order to ensure development for and with persons with disabilities, Reaffirming the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 1 which it adopted on 13 December 2006 and which entered into force on 3 May 2008, a landmark convention affirming the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities, recognizing that it is both a human rights and a development instrument, encouraging its ratification by Member States and its implementation by States parties, and taking note of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2 Reaffirming also the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 3 which is inclusive of persons with disabilities and in which Member States pledged to leave no one behind, and acknowledging that Member States, while implementing the 2030 Agenda, should, inter alia, respect, protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without discrimination of any kind, __________________ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910. Ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910. 3 Resolution 70/1. 1 2 24-24136 (E) *2424136*