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Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03
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- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto (2013), para. 09
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- 3. Also welcomes the work of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and encourages sustained efforts by the Committee to improve the efficiency of its working methods;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 38
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- 10. Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe, sufficient, nutritious and culturally accepted food are inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Equality and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities and the right of persons with disabilities to access to justice (2018), para. 17
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- Deeply concerned also at the negative impact of those laws and practices on the rights of persons with disabilities that provide inadequate support to such persons to exercise their legal capacity on an equal basis with others, which has a negative impact on the enjoyment of equality and non-discrimination and in some cases that deny their right to effective access to justice on an equal basis with others or allow for their forced institutionalization on the basis of a real or perceived disability,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 284
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- (e) Develop innovative technological solutions for remittance transfer, such as mobile payments, digital tools or e-banking, to reduce costs, improve speed, enhance security, increase transfer through regular channels and open up gender- responsive distribution channels to underserved populations, including persons in rural areas, persons with low levels of literacy and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2009), para. 10
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- Welcoming the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3F 4 which reaffirms that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2020), para. 081
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- 47. Calls upon Member States, relevant humanitarian organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant humanitarian actors to ensure non-discrimination and opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others in humanitarian preparedness and response;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2004), para. 14
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- Reiterating that technology, in particular information and communication technologies, provides new possibilities for improving accessibility and employment for persons with disabilities and for facilitating their full and effective participation and equality, and welcoming the initiatives of the United Nations and contributions from regional groups in promoting information and communication technologies as a means of achieving the universal goal of a society for all,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 09
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- Reaffirming the follow-up and review of progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals by the high-level political forum on sustainable development and the inclusion of persons with disabilities as stakeholders in its work, as set out in resolution 67/290 of 9 July 2013,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 080
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- 37. Calls upon States to ensure the realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health of children with disabilities without discrimination of any kind, to provide all children with disabilities with the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable, gender-sensitive and age-appropriate health care and programmes as provided to other children, to give priority to the child’s well-being and support, and to facilitate families in their child-care and child-raising efforts; and to develop strategies for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children with disabilities, as well as providing those health services required by children with disabilities specifically because of their disabilities, including early identification and intervention as appropriate, as well as access to health-related rehabilitation, reintegration and services designed to minimize and prevent further disabilities, and prevent exclusion on the basis of disability; states should also develop strategies for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2016), para. 086
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- (a) To eliminate gender disparities in education and to ensure effective and equal access to inclusive and equitable quality education, including vocational training, at all levels for all children without discrimination of any kind, particularly the vulnerable, including indigenous children, as well as children with disabilities and children in vulnerable or marginalized situations;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2014), para. 16
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- 5. Encourages Member States, their development partners and the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as appropriate, to sustain and expand the gains achieved during the Decade through additional technical and financial support and to promote literacy and literate environments through multi-pronged approaches, with a focus on marginalized groups or those in vulnerable situations, in particular girls and women, people living in rural areas and persons with disabilities, including by utilizing innovative information and communications technology solutions, bearing in mind that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 03
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- 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 rights and freedoms without discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Protection of the human rights of migrants: strengthening the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, including in large movements (2016), para. 20
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- Recognizing further that migrants with disabilities are often disproportionately affected in situations of large movements and in their aftermath, and that they are often at increased risk of discrimination, exploitation and violence, including sexual and gender- based violence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 074
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- Children with disabilities
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2013), para. 07
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- Gravely concerned that persons with disabilities continue to be subject to multiple and aggravated forms of discrimination and are still largely invisible in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals, and noting that, while progress has already been made by Governments, the international community and the United Nations system in mainstreaming disability as an integral part of the development agenda, major challenges do remain,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2018), para. 18
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- 7. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to ensure the protection of children belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities who are at risk of or have experienced violence, in accordance with the relevant obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 and of women who can be exposed to both gender-based violence and violence on the grounds of their belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and to give special attention to the situation and specific needs of older persons and persons with disabilities belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2011), para. 07
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- 3. Also welcomes the adoption by the Executive Committee of the conclusion on protracted refugee situations 2F 3 and the conclusion on refugees with disabilities and other persons with disabilities protected and assisted by the Office of the High Commissioner; 3F 4
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues (2007), para. 057
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- (d) Full lists of documents to be submitted in support of death and disability claims by the Member States and, where applicable, beneficiaries;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for development (2017), para. 10
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- Recognizing that information and communications technologies present new opportunities and challenges and that there is a pressing need to address th e major impediments that developing countries face in accessing new technologies, stressing the need to address prevailing challenges to bridge the digital divides, both between and within countries and between women and men, and to harness information and communications technologies for development, and recalling the need to emphasize quality of access to bridge digital and knowledge divides, using a multidimensional approach that includes speed, stability, affordability, language, local content and accessibility for persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2016), para. 29
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- 13. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective and the perspectives of persons with disabilities in disaster risk management so as to strengthen the resilience of communities and reduce social vulnerabilities to disasters, and in this regard recognizes the need for the inclusive p articipation and contribution of women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as the role of youth, volunteers, migrants, local communities, academia, scientific and research entities and netw orks, business, professional associations, private sector financing institutions and the media in all forums and processes related to disaster risk reduction, in accordance with the Sendai Framework;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2019), para. 29
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- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting their equal access to justice,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 45
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- (a) To ensure that international cooperation is disability- and gender-sensitive and inclusive, including through the implementation of disability markers to monitor the implementation of programmes, and the collection of data and statistics on persons with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, targets and indicators, as well as other international frameworks;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to development (2020), para. 76
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- 39. Recalls the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 25 which entered into force on 3 May 2008, and General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, and, while recognizing persons with disabilities as agents and beneficiaries of development, stresses the need to take into consideration the rights of persons with disabilities and the importance of international cooperation in support of national efforts in the realization of the right to development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 07
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- Noting that the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, adopted by the Second World Assembly on Ageing, 6 considers “older persons and disabilities” as a specific issue for policy concern,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2011), para. 15
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- 4. Welcomes the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”, 4 2H particularly the recognition that policies and actions must also focus on persons with disabilities so that they benefit from progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 42
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- 29. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender and disability perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to address and eliminate discrimination on the basis of age, sex or disability, and recommends that Member States engage with all sectors of society, in particular with releva nt organizations with an interest in the matter, including organizations of older persons, women and persons with disabilities, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote positive images of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 07
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- Expressing deep concern at the situation of women, children and persons with disabilities, especially those who are internally displaced, who remain among the most vulnerable to violence and abuse,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), para. 11
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- 4. Encourages the meaningful participation and integration of all people, including youth, older persons, women, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities, minorities and other marginalized groups, into volunteer-involving programmes and projects, with the provision of the appropriate means to leverage the full potential of volunteerism;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2017), para. 32
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- (g) To realize the commitment made at the London Somalia Conference to establish closer dialogue and cooperation with civil society, with representation of women, marginalized groups and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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