A/HRC/RES/43/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 June 2020
43/23.
Awareness-raising on the rights of persons with disabilities, and
habilitation and rehabilitation
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional
Protocol thereto,
Recalling also the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be
guaranteed the full enjoyment of their human rights and freedoms without discrimination,
Reaffirming all of its previous resolutions on the rights of persons with disabilities,
the most recent of which was resolution 37/22 of 23 March 2018 on equality and nondiscrimination of persons with disabilities and the rights of persons with disabilities to access
to justice, and welcoming the efforts of all stakeholders to implement those resolutions,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 74/144 of 18 December 2019 on the
implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional
Protocol thereto,
Reaffirming that discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a
violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person, and in this regard
recognizing that awareness-raising plays a key role in promoting respect for human rights,
empowering persons with disabilities and their families, and addressing the underlying
attitudes, values and beliefs that can be a cause of human rights violations and abuses,
including discriminatory laws, State policies, discourse and conduct,
Mindful of the need to incorporate a gender perspective and to take measures to
address multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination in all efforts to promote the full
enjoyment by persons with disabilities of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Recalling the general principles reflected in the Convention, namely, nondiscrimination, full and effective participation and inclusion in society, respect for difference
and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity,
individual autonomy and independence of persons, equality between men and women and
respect for the evolving capacities of children with disabilities,
GE.20-08881(E)