A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/153
7 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 95
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/605)]
49/153.
Towards full integration of persons with disabilities
in society: implementation of the Standard Rules on
the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities, and of the Long-Term Strategy to
Implement the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted
the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities,
Recalling also its resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it
adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 1/
Recalling further all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions
37/53 of 3 December 1982, 46/96 of 16 December 1991, 47/88 of 16 December 1992
and 48/95 and 48/99 of 20 December 1993,
Welcoming the unreserved reaffirmation in the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25
June 1993, 2/ of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with
disabilities, and the recognition in the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development 3/ of a pressing
need, among others, for the realization of the goals of full participation and
equality for persons with disabilities,
1/
A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII,
recommendation 1 (IV).
2/
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
3/
A/CONF.171/13, chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
95-76549
/...