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The role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends (1995), para. 04
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- Recognizing that cooperatives in their various forms are becoming an indispensable factor in the economic and social development of all countries, promoting the fullest possible participation in the development process of all population groups, including women, youth, disabled persons and the elderly,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2015), para. 10
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- Stressing the need for capacity development efforts aimed at empowering persons with disabilities and their representative organizations to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work on an equal basis and without discrimination to persons with disabilities, including by promoting access to inclusive education systems, skills development, volunteering opportunities and vocational and entrepreneurial training in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum independence,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 40
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- Reiterating the urgent need for action to address the adverse effects of climate change on food security, in particular for women, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as well as the other root causes of food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2016), para. 12
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- Recalling the outcomes of the International Conference on Financing for Development 10 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow -up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 12 the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development 13 and the outcomes of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 14 the high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS, the high-level meetings of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, 16 the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, 17 the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, 18 the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, 19 the high-level meeting on Africa’s development needs, the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond, 21 the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, 22 the Lima work programme on gender and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, 24 adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mental health and human rights (2017), para. 10
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- Recalling the general principles reflected in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, namely respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy and independence, and full and effective participation and inclusion in society,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2011), para. 19
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- 8. Calls upon Governments and United Nations bodies and agencies to include disability issues and persons with disabilities in reviewing progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and to step up efforts to include in their assessment the extent to which persons with disabilities are able to benefit from efforts to achieve the Goals;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Equal Pay Day (2020), para. 04
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- Recalling also the commitment to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value, contained in the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular target 8.5,
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2017), para. 39
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- 9. Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe and nutritious food are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl (2017), para. 06
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- Recalling the need to ensure that all children enjoy the right to education and are ensured equal access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education, the need to eliminate gender disparities in education by 2030, and the need to build and upgrade education facilities that are child-, disability- and gender-sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive, accessible and effective learning environments for all,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving global road safety (2010), para. 04
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- Recognizing the tremendous global burden of mortality resulting from road traffic crashes, as well as the twenty to fifty million people who incur each year non-fatal road traffic injuries, many of whom are left with lifelong disabilities,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers (2006), para. 12
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- 5. Reaffirms the need to recognize and promote all forms of volunteerism as an issue that involves and benefits all segments of society, including children, young persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and immigrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017 (2016), para. 132
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- 86. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to ensure that measures to improve health programmes and education programmes, including for children with special needs and disabilities, are implemented in a timely manner;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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. 37
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- (j) Repealing or revising laws that have the effect of denying the right to a fair trial to any person with disabilities, adopting laws to prohibit practices that act as a barrier to justice for persons with disabilities, and enacting and implementing anti-discrimination measures, including providing procedural accommodations when necessary in all legal proceedings;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 28
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- Recognizing also the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace, and stressing that major international sporting event s, such as the international Paralympic Games, should be organized in the spirit of peace, mutual understanding, friendship and tolerance, where persons with disabilities have an opportunity to organize, develop and participate in disability-specific sporting and recreational activities, on an equal basis with others, and where the spirit of fair play prevails, violence is banned and ethical principles are upheld,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 13
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- (b) The landmark political agreement between the Federal Government and federal Member States, which paves the way for the drafting, consultation and passage of an electoral law by December 2018 as a first step towards realizing historic one-person, one-vote elections in 2020 and, in particular, the commitment of the Federal Government, federal Member States and the National Independent Election Commission to protect inclusivity in terms of ensuring equal participation and representation of women in decision-making, as well as of displaced persons, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups, at all stages of the electoral cycle;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Day of Disabled Persons (1994), para. 02
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- Recalling all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 1/ and 37/53 of 3 December 1982, in which, inter alia, it proclaimed the period 1983-1992 the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons as a long-term plan of action,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2014), para. 45
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- 13. Welcomes the ongoing efforts undertaken by the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group, which met for its thematic meeting on harnessing the power of sport to address gender-based violence and its fourth plenary session, on 30 June and 1 July 2014, respectively, and the commencement of the substantive work of the thematic working group on sport and persons with disabilities, in addition to the working groups on sport and peace, sport and gender, and sport and child and youth development;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2012), para. 35
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- 12. Invites Member States and other relevant stakeholders, as observers, to join and support the Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group, so as to further strengthen its work on all envisaged themes, including the pending thematic working groups on sport and persons with disabilities, as well as sport and health;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Positive and full inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and the leadership role of the United Nations therein (1994), para. 16
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- Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/26 of 24 May 1990, and reaffirming the specific measures required for the attainment of full equality by persons with disabilities, enumerated in detail in the World Programme of Action,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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. 50
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- 13. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare its next annual thematic study on the rights of persons with disabilities on article 26 of the Convention, and to prepare its subsequent study on article 8 of the Convention, in consultation with States and other relevant stakeholders, regional organizations, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, and national human rights institutions, requiring contributions to be submitted in an accessible format, and requests that such stakeholder contributions, the studies themselves and an easy-to-read-version of them, be made available on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner, in an accessible format, prior to the fortieth session of the Human Rights Council;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2007), para. 30
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- 21. Reaffirms the obligation of all States and parties to an armed conflict to protect civilians in armed conflicts in accordance with international humanitarian law, and invites States to promote a culture of protection, taking into account the particular needs of women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The work and employment of persons with disabilities (2013), para. 10
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- Recognizing the need to build awareness among persons with disabilities, their families, communities and all those working in education systems of the right of persons with disabilities to work and to enjoy equal employment opportunities,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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. 19
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- Acknowledging the importance of taking measures to raise awareness of the rights of women and girls with disabilities in order to eliminate stereotypes, prejudices and violence, including harmful practices which seriously violate and impair or nullify the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women and girls with disabilities and which constitute a major impediment to their full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision - making,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 46
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- 21. Underlines the need to intensify efforts, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities and to support measures that will ensure their empowerment and full and eff ective participation in decision-making processes at all levels and in all areas and eliminate structural and legal barriers to their full, equal and effective participation in political, economic, social and cultural life;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2011), para. 21
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- 10. Emphasizes the importance of the full participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities, including through information in accessible formats at all levels of policymaking and development, which is critical to informing policymakers on the situation of persons with disabilities, the barriers they may face and ways to overcome obstacles to the full and equal enjoyment of their rights, to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for all, including persons with disabilities, and to their socio-economic advancement;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2014), para. 27
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- 14. Also welcomes the contribution of national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris Principles to the work of the United Nations, including of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing and the ongoing intergovernmental process of the General Assembly on strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2012), para. 13
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- Recalling also article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8 outlining the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 34
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- (q) Promoting the rights of women and girls with disabilities in rural areas, including by ensuring access on an equal basis to productive employment and decent work, economic and financial resources and disability-sensitive infrastructure and services, in particular in relation to health and education, as well as by ensuring that their priorities and needs are fully incorporated into policies and programme s, through, inter alia, their participation in decision-making processes;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) (2019), para. 50
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- 6. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children according to their evolving capacities, young people, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, in the context of the Decade at all levels;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2019), para. 25
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- 9. Recalls that the Human Rights Council decided in its resolution 39/13 that the theme of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, to be held during the forty-fifth session of the Council, would be the protection of indigenous human rights defenders, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to encourage and facilitate the participation of indigenous women and to make the discussion fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and to submit it to the Council prior to its forty-seventh session;
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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