United Nations
A/RES/60/131
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 62
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/501)]
60/131. Implementation of the World Programme of Action
concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium
Development Goals for persons with disabilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
reaffirming the obligations contained in relevant human rights instruments,
including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women 1 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2
Recalling also its relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 37/52 of
3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons, 3 resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities,
and resolution 58/132 of 22 December 2003, as well as the relevant resolutions of
the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions,
Recalling further the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration
on 8 September 2000 4 and of the 2005 World Summit Outcome on 16 September
2005 5 by Heads of State and Government, stressing the need to promote and protect
the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with
disabilities, and recognizing the importance of incorporating the disability
perspective in the implementation of the outcomes of the major United Nations
conferences and summits, with a view to achieving the internationally agreed
development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration,
Noting with appreciation the initiatives and actions of Governments to
implement the World Programme of Action, the Standard Rules and relevant
resolutions that give special attention to the questions of accessible environments
and information and communication technologies, health, education and social
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation I (IV).
4
See resolution 55/2.
5
See resolution 60/1.
2
05-49546