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with disabilities in order to ensure the equal enjoyment of their rights, and to facilitate their
role as leaders and active involvement and meaningful participation in decision-making;
9.
Recognizes the importance of international cooperation and its promotion in
support of national efforts to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, including with
respect to ensuring the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk
and humanitarian emergencies;
10.
Encourages States to engage in international cooperation efforts, where
required, aimed at enhancing their national capacities to ensure the protection and safety of
persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict,
humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters, and invites the Office of
the High Commissioner and relevant United Nations agencies to consider ways to foster
international cooperation activities in this regard;
11.
Encourages the mobilization of public and private resources on a sustainable
basis to mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in development and underlines
the need to promote and strengthen international cooperation at all levels, including with
regard to capacity-building, by facilitating access to and sharing of accessible and assistive
technology and through the transfer of technologies, as appropriate, the exchange of good
practices and partnerships for development that are inclusive of persons with disabilities;
12.
Calls upon States and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that all international
cooperation, including international development programmes, is inclusive of and
accessible to persons with disabilities and does not contribute to creating new barriers for
them or reinforce existing inequalities;
13.
Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming the rights of persons with
disabilities as an integral part of relevant sustainable development strategies, and
encourages States to apply a human rights-based approach and to intensify efforts to
advance the rights of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, consistent with their international obligations, including by
engaging in close consultations with and actively involving persons with disabilities in the
reporting processes leading up to the high-level political forum;
14.
Urges States to continue to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities
in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by, inter alia,
supporting the disaggregation of data by disability for specific indicators, where relevant, to
assist States in measuring the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and
169 associated targets and programming policies related to the Goals;
15.
Encourages States to take into account the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities during the ongoing preparations for and their participation in the
World Humanitarian Summit, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 23 and 24 May 2016;
16.
Decides that its next annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with
disabilities will be held at its thirty-fourth session, and that the debate will focus on article 5
of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding equality and
non-discrimination, and will have international sign interpretation and captioning;
17.
Also decides that an interactive debate on the rights of persons with
disabilities will be held at its thirty-seventh session, and that the debate will focus on article
13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding access to justice,
and will have international sign interpretation and captioning;
18.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare its next annual
study on the rights of persons with disabilities with a focus on article 5 of the Convention,
and to prepare its subsequent study with a focus on article 13 of the Convention, in
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