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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/82
30 January 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 102
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/634)]
52/82.
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled
Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of
Action concerning Disabled Persons,1 and 49/153 of 23 December 1994 and 50/144 of 21 December 1995,
in which it called upon Governments, when implementing the World Programme of Action, to take into
account the elements suggested in the Long-term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action
concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond,2
Recalling also its resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the Standard Rules on
the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities,
Welcoming the inclusion of measures to address questions of disability in the programmes, plans and
platforms for action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June
1993, 3 the International Conference on Population and Development, 4 the World Summit for Social
1
A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation 1 (IV).
2
A/49/435, annex.
3
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I).
4
See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18).
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