A/RES/72/162
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.1)]
72/162.
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women
and girls with disabilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous relevant resolutions, the most recent of which was
resolution 70/145 of 17 December 2015, as well as relevant resolutions of the Human
Rights Council and of the Economic and Social Council and its functional
commissions,
Recalling also the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and
interrelatedness of all human rights and fundame ntal freedoms and the need for
persons with disabilities to be guaranteed the full enjoyment of their rights and
freedoms without discrimination,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 3 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the
Convention on the Rights of the Child 5 and all other relevant international human
rights instruments,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 6 the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 7 the Beijing
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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