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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;
Encourages international cooperation in the implementation of the
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Millennium Development Goals, including through global partnerships for
development, which are crucial for the realization of the Goals for all, in particular
for persons with disabilities;
Encourages Governments to develop and accelerate the exchange of
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information, guidelines and standards, best practices, legislative measures and
government policies regarding the situation of persons with disabilities and
disability issues, in particular as they relate to inclusion and accessibility;
10. Calls upon Governments to build a knowledge base of data and
information about the situation of persons with disabilities that could be used to
enable development policy planning, monitoring, evaluation and implementation to
be disability-sensitive, in particular in the realization of the Millennium
Development Goals for persons with disabilities, and in this regard:
(a) Requests the Secretary-General to disseminate widely and promote the
use of the Guidelines and Principles for the Development of Disability Statistics 5
and the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses 6
and to facilitate technical assistance, within existing resources, including the
provision of assistance for capacity-building of Member States, in particular to
developing countries;
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(b) Encourages Member States to make use of statistics, to the extent
possible, to integrate a disability perspective in reviewing their progress towards
realizing the Millennium Development Goals for all;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to submit information on the
implementation of the present resolution during the sixty-fifth session of the
General Assembly within the report requested by the Assembly in paragraph 13 (b)
of its resolution 63/150 of 18 December 2008.
65th plenary meeting
18 December 2009
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ST/ESA/STAT/SER.Y/10 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.01.XVII.15).
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/67/Rev.2 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.07.XVII.8).
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