Human Rights Council Tenth Session Resolution 10/7. Human rights of persons with disabilities: national frameworks for the promotion and protection of the human rights of persons with disabilities The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming its resolution 7/9 of 27 March 2008, continuing a framework for the Council’s consideration of the rights of persons with disabilities, and welcoming the efforts of all stakeholders to implement the resolution, Reaffirming also its commitment to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, to promote respect for their inherent dignity and to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities, Stressing the importance of effective national legislative, policy and institutional frameworks for the full enjoyment of rights by persons with disabilities, 1. Welcomes the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto on 3 May 2008, as well as the convening of the first meeting of the Conference of States parties and of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 2. Also welcomes the fact that, to date, 139 States and 1 regional integration organization have signed and 50 have ratified the Convention, and that 82 have signed and 29 have ratified the Optional Protocol, and calls upon those States and regional integration organizations that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the Convention and the Optional Protocol as a matter of priority; 3. Encourages States that have ratified the Convention and have submitted one or more reservations to the Convention to implement a process to review regularly the effect and continued relevance of such reservations, and to consider the possibility of withdrawing the reservations; 4. Takes note with appreciation of the thematic study on key legal measures for the ratification and effective implementation of the Convention prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/10/48), and invites all stakeholders to consider the study when designing and implementing measures for the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, including the establishment of national frameworks to this effect;