A/RES/76/132
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 28
Social development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/454, para. 51)]
76/132.
Addressing the challenges of persons living with a rare disease and
their families
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 3 the Convention on the
Rights of the Child 4 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 5
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
wide, far-reaching, and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and its commitment to working tirelessly
for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, with the endeavour to reach the
furthest behind first, including persons living with a rare disease,
Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons,
including the estimated 300 million persons living with a rare disease worldwide,
many of whom are children, by ensuring equal opportunities to achieve their optimal
potential development and to fully, equally and meaningfully participate in society,
Reaffirming the right of every human being, without distinction of any kind, to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and to
a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s family,
including adequate food, safe drinking water, clothing and housing, and to the
continuous improvement of living conditions, with particular attention to the alarming
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
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