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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 24
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- Recognizing the importance of supporting countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty and promote the empowerment of the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including women, children and youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome document of 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 (2014), para. 19
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- (j) Strengthen and support, in coordination with academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders, research to promote knowledge and understanding of disability and development, and adequately and efficiently allocate resources in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015 (2010), para. 15
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- 7. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous people and other local communities, in the implementation of the Decade at all levels, including its midterm comprehensive review;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2017), para. 16
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- Recognizing the role that the Paralympic movement plays in showcasing the achievements of athletes with disabilities to a global audience and in acting as a primary vehicle to promote positive perceptions and greater inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport and society,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 06
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- Bearing in mind that conditions of peace and security based on full respect for the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations and observance of applicable human rights instruments are indispensable for the full protection of persons with disabilities, in particular during armed conflicts and foreign occupation,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2010), para. 14
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- 5. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 030
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- 12. Also calls upon States to take the necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities in both the public and the private spheres, including access to good quality education and health care and protection from violence, abuse and neglect, and to develop and, where it already exists, to enforce legislation to prohibit discrimination against them in order to ensure their inherent dignity, promote their self-reliance and facilitate their active participation and integration in the community, taking into account the particularly difficult situation of children with disabilities living in poverty;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Enhancing accessibility for persons with disabilities to conferences and meetings of the United Nations system (2020), para. 4
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- Noting with appreciation the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy launched by the Secretary-General on 11 June 2019,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 16
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- Recognizing that the prevalence of disabilities increases with age and that many older persons live with a disability,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 34
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- 21. Recommends that Member States enhance their capacity to more effectively collect data, statistics and qualitative information, disaggregated when necessary by relevant factors, including sex and disability, in order to improve assessment of the situation of older persons, and recognizes that the data revolution presents new opportunities and challenges for the use of new data to help with the measurement of progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular its aspects of relevance to older persons, and to ensure that no one is left behind;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- 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: accessibility (2020), para. 44
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- 14. Calls upon States to ensure that persons with disabilities have the opportunity to choose their place of residence and where and with whom they live on an equal basis with others and are not obliged to live in a particular living arrangement and that persons with disabilities have access to a range of in-home, residential and __________________ other community support services, including personal assistance necessary to support living and inclusion in the community, and to prevent isolation or segregation from the community;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (2016), para. 65
- Original document
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- 18. Encourages the Agency, in close cooperation with other relevant United Nations entities, to continue to make progress in addressing the needs, rights and protection of children, women and persons with disabilities in its operations, including through the provision of necessary psychosocial and humanitarian support, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 16 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 18
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 09
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- 1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the fifth quinquennial review and appraisal of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons 4F 5 and his report on the status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto; 5F 6
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2018), para. 36
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- 7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 38
- Original document
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- 19. Also calls upon States to take all steps necessary to ensure an inclusive, quality education system, including by developing and implementing a comprehensive and coordinated legislative and policy framework that takes into account the rights, requirements and varying needs of children with disabilities at all levels and promotes life- long learning opportunities for the full development of their potential and sense of dignity and self-worth, the strengthening of respect for their human rights, fundamental freedoms and human diversity, and the development of their personality, skills, talents and creativity, as well as their mental and physical abilities, to their fullest potential, thus enabling children with disabilities to participate effectively and freely in a free society and fostering the sense of belonging to a community;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2013), para. 25
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- 12. Welcomes the adoption by Parliament of the Act authorizing ratification by the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, and encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to continue to ratify international and regional instruments relating to human rights and international humanitarian law;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 34
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- (vi) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as an enabler of sustainable development (2018), para. 24
- Original document
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- Recognizing the role that the Paralympic movement plays in showcasing the achievements of athletes with disabilities to a global audience and in acting as a primary vehicle to promote positive perceptions and greater inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport and society,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mental health and human rights (2017), para. 31
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- 5. Urges States to take active steps to fully integrate a human rights perspective into mental health and community services, and to adopt, implement, update, strengthen or monitor, as appropriate, all existing laws, policies and practices with a view to eliminating all forms of discrimination, stigma, prejudice, violence, abuse, social exclusion and segregation within that context, and to promote the right of persons with mental health conditions or psychosocial disabilities to full inclusion and effective participation in society, on an equal basis with others;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The work and employment of persons with disabilities (2013), para. 39
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- 14. Decides to continue to integrate the rights of persons with disabilities into its work, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 7/9 of 27 March 2008;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2017), para. 084
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- 48. Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming the perspective of persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction, recognizes the importance of non-discrimination and their inclusive participation in and contribution to disaster risk reduction, preparedness, emergency response, recovery and transition from relief to development, as well as the implementation of policies and programmes that are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities, recognizing that persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected in humanitarian emergencies and face multiple obstacles in accessing humanitarian assistance, and recalls the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to information (2015), para. 071
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- 43. Requests the Department of Public Information and its network of United Nations information centres to raise awareness of all high-level meetings mandated by the General Assembly, to widely disseminate information on the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, held in Apia from 1 to 4 September 2014, including the media coverage already provided for in its resolution 68/238 of 27 December 2013, on the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Vienna from 3 to 5 November 2014, on the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, from 14 to 18 March 2015, in accordance with its resolution 67/209 of 21 December 2012, and on the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, held in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2015, and to continue to promote the processes in follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from 20 to 22 June 2012, as well as `the high-level meeting of the Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities, held on 23 September 2013, the high-level meeting of the Assembly on nuclear disarmament, held on 26 September 2013, as well as its follow-up process, the third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, held in New York from 25 to 27 September 2015, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from 17 to 20 October 2016 in accordance with its resolution 69/226 of 19 December 2014;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 32
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- 14. Also urges States to ensure that children with disabilities enjoy the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, without stigmatization or discrimination of any kind, and to provide them with the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable health-care services, information and education to enjoy that right in practice as provided to other children, including with regard to sexual and reproductive health, and those services needed specifically because of their disabilities, including early identification and intervention, as well as psychological and physical care, habilitation and rehabilitation, and sustainable support and provision of services designed to protect and respect their dignity, integrity, choices and inclusion in the community and to minimize and prevent further impairments;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- 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. 10
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- Recognizing that participation, accountability, non-discrimination and empowerment are fundamental principles of a human rights-based approach to disability, and noting article 3 of the Convention in that regard,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2008), para. 34
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- (b) To present, as an annex to the report requested in subparagraph (a) above, proposed updates of the World Programme of Action, in accordance with paragraph 201 of the World Programme, bearing in mind the current situation of persons with disabilities around the world, as well as the developments in the global policy framework regarding persons with disabilities, including the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Disaster risk reduction (2018), para. 39
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- 20. Recognizes that disaster risk reduction requires a multi-hazard approach and inclusive risk-informed decision-making based on the open exchange and dissemination of disaggregated data, including by sex, age and disability, as well as on easily accessible, up-to-date, comprehensible, science-based, non-sensitive risk information, complemented by traditional knowledge, and in this regard encourages States to commence or, as appropriate, further enhance the collection of data on disaster loss and other relevant disaster risk reduction targets, disaggregated by sex, age and disability, and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, in reporting on the Sendai Framework;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2009), para. 10
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- Recalling the relevant articles on leisure, recreation, sport and play of international conventions, including article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 1F 2 recognizing the right of persons with disabilities to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2020), para. 043
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- 9. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, quality education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities, noting the role of sports in this regard, and address the challenges posed to social development by globalization and market-driven reforms in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International financial system and development (2019), para. 11
- Original document
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- Recognizing that the remaining effects of the world financial and economic crisis have the potential to undermine debt sustainability and progress towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, especially in developing countries, and stressing the need to avoid the recurrence of such crises, including by addressing the lessons learned, improving confidence, sustaining economic growth and promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including young people, older persons and people with disabilities, and by continuing to promote global economic stability and the underlying institutional reforms required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to development (2002), para. 37
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- 16. Underlines the fact that, in the process of the realization of the right to development, special attention should be given to persons belonging to minorities, whether national, ethnic, religious or linguistic, as well as to persons belonging to vulnerable groups, such as elderly people, indigenous people, persons facing discrimination on multiple grounds, Roma, migrants, persons with disabilities and children and persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), and that such attention should have a gender perspective;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- 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. 31
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- 12. Also calls upon States to develop policies and measures that promote access to education for persons with disabilities and to strengthen education systems that are fully inclusive of girls with disabilities to reduce the risk of social exclusion and poverty, which could have long-term implications for their capacity and opportunity to participate in labour markets;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- 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. 27
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- 14. Requests the United Nations system to facilitate technical assistance, within existing resources, including the provision of assistance for capacity-building and for the collection and compilation of national and regional data and statistics on persons with disabilities, in particular to developing countries, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with existing guidelines on disability statistics, to analyse, publish and disseminate disability data and statistics in future periodic reports, as appropriate, on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2020), para. 022
- Original document
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- Noting with concern that women, persons with disabilities, older persons, children and youth are often disproportionately affected in natural disasters, and stressing the need to ensure that their specific needs are identified and addressed in emergency preparedness and response,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in society: implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and of the Long-Term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond (1995), para. 03
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also its resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 1/
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2020), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing concern about the adverse impact of the continuing fragility of the global economy and the slow pace of restoration of global growth and trade, including on development, cognizant that the global economy remains in a challenging phase, with many downside risks, including net negative capital flows from some emerging and developing economies, continued low commodity prices, high unemployment, particularly among young people, women, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, local communities and people in vulnerable situations, and rising private and public indebtedness in many developing countries, and stressing the need for continuing efforts to address systemic fragilities and imbalances and to reform and strengthen the international financial system while implementing the reforms agreed upon to date in order to attend to those challenges and make progress towards sustaining global demand,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (2013), para. 28
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- Paragraph text
- 7. Underscores that the requirements and needs of prisoners with disabilities should be duly considered, as applicable, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 11
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promoting social integration through social inclusion (2020), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Stresses the importance of promoting inclusive and equitable quality education that is age-, disability- and gender-sensitive, as well as lifelong learning opportunities for all, especially for children, women, youth, persons with disabilities, older persons, migrants, indigenous peoples and persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and of skills development and quality training as essential means for inclusive participation and integration in society;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Day of Sign Languages (2018), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2 in which it is reflected that sign languages are equal to spoken languages, and that States parties to the Convention undertake to recognize, accept and promote the use of sign languages,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2018), para. 59
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- Paragraph text
- 49. Notes the importance of States and the Office of the High Commissioner discussing and clarifying the role of the Office in mixed migr atory flows in order to better address protection needs in the context of mixed migratory flows, bearing in mind the particular needs of vulnerable groups, especially women, children and persons with disabilities, including by safeguarding access to asylum for those in need of international protection, and also notes the readiness of the High Commissioner, consistent with his mandate, to assist States in fulfilling their protection responsibilities in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2013), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths and disabilities as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty eradication and nutrition,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 47
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Encourages Member States, United Nations organizations and mechanisms, including the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of persons with disabilities, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility and the regional commissions, to make all efforts to engage with and ensure accessibility for the full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities, in cooperation with organizations of persons with disabilities and, as appropriate, national human rights institutions, in development processes and decision-making at the local, national, regional and international levels;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) To meet commitments to deliver legislation by December 2018 that will pave the way for historic one-person, one-vote elections in 2020, and to ensure that this and other measures promote the inclusivity of these elections, particularly by ensuring the equal participation and representation of women in decision-making and in leadership positions, as well as of internally displaced persons, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups at all stages of the electoral cycle;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Role of international cooperation in support of national efforts for the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities (2011), para. 26
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- Paragraph text
- 17. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a study on the participation of persons with disabilities in political and public life, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including States, regional organizations, including regional integration organizations, United Nations agencies, the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development of the Economic and Social Council, civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, and national human rights institutions, and requests that the study be made available on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner, in an accessible format, prior to the nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of the child (2006), para. 044
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Also calls upon States to take the necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities in both the public and the private spheres, including access to good quality education and health care and protection from violence, abuse and neglect, and to develop and, where it already exists, to enforce legislation to prohibit discrimination against them in order to ensure their inherent dignity, promote their self-reliance and facilitate their active participation and integration in the community, taking into account the particularly difficult situation of children with disabilities living in poverty;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2019), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) To adopt the Electoral Law and the amendments to legislation on political parties before the 2020 and 2021 elections, and to ensure that these and other measures promote the inclusivity of elections, particularly by ensuring the equal participation and representation of women in decision-making and in leadership positions, as well as of internally displaced persons, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups at all stages of the electoral cycle;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- 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. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) Taking all appropriate measures to eliminate all situations of gender-based discrimination against women and girls with disabilities of all ages, who face an increased vulnerability to violence, abuse, discrimination and negative stereotyping;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- 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. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 8/ adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, and the definition therein of equalization of opportunities reflect the determination of the international community to ensure that the various international instruments and recommendations will be put to practical, concrete and effective use in improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities and their families and communities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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 (2020), para. 26
- Paragraph text
- (f) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women and, as appropriate, girls, including those who are indigenous, those with disabilities and older women, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of and follow-up to programmes and strategies for gender equality, the empowerment of women and rural development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2018), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Being aware of the need to actively involve sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games in achieving the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities, and respect for their inherent dignity, recognizing efforts made by the hosting countries to create a barrier-free environment for persons with disabilities, and stressing the need to continue to build on efforts made most recently at the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in PyeongChang and the 2014 International Federation of Association Football World Cup in Brazil,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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: accessibility (2020), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2 and the Optional Protocol thereto 3 as a matter of priority;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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: accessibility (2020), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that persons with disabilities include those who have long -term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others, including in relation to their access to the physical environment, to transportation, to information and communications, including information and communications technologies and systems, and to other facilities and services open or provided to the public, in both urban and rural areas,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- 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 (2014), para. 55
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Appeals to all Governments to develop reliable literacy data and information and more inclusive policymaking environments and to devise innovative strategies for reaching the groups disproportionately affected by illiteracy, in particular the poor and those living in the most vulnerable situations, including persons with disabilities, and for seeking alternative formal and non-formal approaches to learning with a view to achieving the goals of the Decade;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2011), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women, children, persons with disabilities and the elderly, and the need to ensure their protection against neglect, abuse, exploitation and violence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (1999), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Approves, with effect from 1 January 1999, an increase of 14.6 per cent in the children’s allowance (including the allowance for disabled children) and in the secondary dependant’s allowance;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to informationInformation in the service of humanity (2019), para. 118
- Paragraph text
- 83. Recalls paragraph 42 of its resolution 73/346 , notes with concern the disparity between the English and the non-English languages on the websites maintained by the Secretariat, urges the Secretary-General to lead the efforts of all offices and departments of the Secretariat to take concrete action to address such uneven development, and in this regard calls upon all stakeholders, including the Department of Global Communications, content-providing offices and departments, in particular the Office of Information and Communications Technology of the Secretariat, to continue their collaboration, within their respective mandates, so as to achieve full parity among the six official languages on all United Nations websites developed and maintained by all Secretariat entities, in full conformity with the principles of multilingualism and in compliance with the relevant resolutions addressing multilingualism and accessibility for persons with disabilities, by making every effort to translate materials currently available only in English and by providing offices and departments with technological solutions that comply with the principle of parity, from within existing resources;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2016), para. 84
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 50. Encourages Governments and all sectors of society to take sustainable measures to ensure equal access to full and productive employment and decent work on an equal basis and without discrimination against persons with disa bilities, including by promoting access to inclusive education systems, skills development and vocational and entrepreneurial training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum independence, as noted in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 32 as well as in the outcome document of 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 and notes the need to strengthen efforts aimed at addressing the rights and needs of women and children with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 24
- Paragraph text
- 2. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development to promote the full enjoyment of all human rights by, and the equalization of opportunities for, persons with disabilities, and encourages her to continue her work, bearing in mind the background of the World Programme of Action; 3
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2016), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe and nutritious food are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- 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. 46
- Paragraph text
- (b) To support and promote international cooperation and assistance and enhance partnerships and coordination, including South-South cooperation, among themselves and the active participation of civil society organizations, including women’s organizations and organizations of women and girls with disabilities and other key stakeholders in strengthening means of implementation, including mobilization of financial resources and technical cooperation for the implementation of the Convention and the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focusing on women and girls with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2015), para. 60
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (i) Urges States to ensure that repatriation mechanisms allow for the identification and special protection of persons in vulnerable situations, including unaccompanied children and persons with disabilities, and take into account, in conformity with their international obligations and commitments, the principle of the best interests of the child, clarity about reception and care arrangements and family reunification;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2013), para. 059
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 32. Recognizes that all children with disabilities should have full enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children, as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 4 reaffirms paragraphs 31 to 45 of its resolution 66/141, and urges all States to implement the measures set out in paragraph 43 of the same resolution;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned that women and girls with disabilities are often among the most vulnerable and marginalized in society and are at a greater risk of experiencing all forms of violence, and recognizing the need for national development strategies and efforts to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities, the elimination of all forms of violence and the realization of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to information (2015), para. 103
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 71. Recalls paragraph 32 of its resolution 69/324, notes with concern the disparity between the English and the non-English languages on the websites maintained by the Secretariat, urges the Secretary-General to lead the efforts of all offices and departments of the Secretariat to take concrete action to address such uneven development, and in this regard calls upon all stakeholders, including the Department of Public Information, content-providing offices and departments, in particular the Office of Information and Communications Technology of the Secretariat, to continue their collaboration, within their respective mandates, so as to achieve full parity among the six official languages on all United Nations websites developed and maintained by all Secretariat entities, in full conformance with the principles of multilingualism and in compliance with the relevant resolutions addressing multilingualism and accessibility for persons with disabilities, by making every effort to translate materials currently available only in English and by providing offices and departments with technological solutions that comply with the principle of parity, from within existing resources;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2003), para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 9. Urges that further efforts be made to ensure the active participation of non-governmental organizations in the Ad Hoc Committee in accordance with General Assembly resolution 56/510 of 23 July 2002 and with the decision of the Ad Hoc Committee on the modalities for the participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee; 4 10. Also urges that efforts be made to ensure that accessibility, with reasonable accommodation as regards facilities and documentation, is improved for all persons with disabilities, in accordance with General Assembly decision 56/474 of 23 July 2002;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 30
- Paragraph text
- (a) To submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session a report on the situation of persons with disabilities with respect to the realization of all the Millennium Development Goals and on lessons learned and synergies and complementarities achieved, based on the implementation of the World Programme of Action, the Standard Rules and the Convention, in order to provide a framework for Member States in their efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2015), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting their access to justice,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 05
- Paragraph text
- Noting with appreciation the initiatives and actions of Governments to implement the World Programme of Action, the Standard Rules and relevant resolutions that give special attention to the questions of accessible environments and information and communication technologies, health, education and social services, employment and sustainable livelihoods, including the relevant activities of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, which reflect the strong commitment to the equalization of opportunities, the rights of persons with disabilities and the promotion and protection of the full enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities, including in the context of development,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Multilingualism (2011), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, and recognizing the importance of the capacity to communicate to the peoples of the world in their own languages, including in formats accessible to persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Disaster risk reduction (2020), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 38. Encourages Governments to promote the full, equal and effective participation and leadership of women, as well as of persons with disabilities, in the design, management, resourcing and implementation of gender-responsive and disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes, and recognizes in this regard that women and girls are disproportionately exposed to risk, increased loss of livelihoods and even loss of life during and in the aftermath of disasters, and that disasters and the consequent disruption to physical, social, economic and environmental networks and support systems disproportionately affect persons with disabilities and their families;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 4 the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 5 the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 6 the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 7 the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 8 the outcome document of the 2016 high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly on HIV and AIDS, entitled “Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030”, 9 the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 10 the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, launched during the first World Humanitarian Summit, and the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), 11 which contain references to the rights, participation, perspectives and well-being of persons with disabilities in development efforts,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2004), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his efforts in improving the accessibility of the United Nations for persons with disabilities, and urges him to continue to implement plans to provide a barrier-free environment;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Equality and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities and the right of persons with disabilities to access to justice (2018), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Mindful of the need to incorporate a gender perspective in all efforts to promote the full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of the child (2014), para. 025
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Expresses its concern that children with disabilities, particularly girls, are often at greater risk, both within and outside the home, of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment and maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (1998), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the inclusion of measures to address questions of disability in the programmes, plans and platforms for action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, 3 the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social D e v e l o p m e n t , 5 t h e F o u r t h W o r l d C o n f e r e n c e o n Women 6 and the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held at Istanbul, Turkey, from 3 to 14 June 1996, 7
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2015), para. 36
- Paragraph text
- (b) To compile and analyse national policies, programmes, best practices and available statistics regarding persons with disabilities, reflecting progress made in addressing the relevant internationally agreed development goals and the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to be submitted to the General Assembly in a flagship report during 2018.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2016), para. 67
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Also decides that the current scheme of the special education grant for children with disabilities shall continue to apply after the introduction of the revised regular education grant scheme, subject to the overall global ceiling equal to the upper limit of the sliding scale plus the amount equivalent to the boarding lump sum under the regular education grant scheme;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2002), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with appreciation also the important contributions of subregional, regional and international seminars and conferences related to persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promoting inclusive and accountable public services for sustainable development (2015), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Calls for renewed efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in public services and to enhance equality in access to services by all, especially persons with disabilities, the elderly, women, youth, children and other disadvantaged groups;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2014), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Condemns the continuing unilateral application and enforcement by certain Powers of unilateral coercive measures, and rejects those measures, with all their extraterritorial effects, as being tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, adopted with a view to preventing those countries from exercising their right to decide, of their own free will, their own political, economic and social systems, and because of the negative effects of those measures on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto (2016), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing concern that persons with disabilities, in particular women and girls, can face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promoting awareness, understanding and the application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2011), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that special attention needs to be paid to ensuring non- discrimination, including the equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities, including their active participation in all aspects of society, including sports,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (2019), para. 043
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 33. Welcomes the measures taken to ensure access to and use of conference services and conference facilities for persons with disabilities, including the establishment of the Accessibility Centre, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to address issues related to the accessibility of conference facilities as a matter of priority and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2017), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (k) To consider acceding to and ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2017), para. 58
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 47. Notes the importance of States and the Office of the High Commissioner discussing and clarifying the role of the Office in mixed migratory flows in order to better address protection needs in the context of mixed migratory flows, bearing in mind the particular needs of vulnerable groups, especially women, child ren and persons with disabilities, including by safeguarding access to asylum for those in need of international protection, and also notes the readiness of the High Commissioner, consistent with his mandate, to assist States in fulfilling their protection responsibilities in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2020), para. 06
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children, as well as older persons and persons with disabilities, among refugees and displaced persons, including exposure to discrimination, sexual exploitation and abuse, physical abuse, violence and exploitation and the recruitment and use of children by parties to armed conflict in violation of applicable international law, and in this regard acknowledging the importance of preventing, responding to and addressing sexual and gender-based violence as well as violations and abuses committed against refugee, returnee and displaced children,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2013), para. 06
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 4 the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 5 and the outcome document of the 2011 high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly on HIV and AIDS, entitled “Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS”, 6 which contain references to the rights, participation, well-being and perspectives of persons with disabilities in development efforts,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 44
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender and disability perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to address and eliminate discrimination on the basis of age, sex or disability, and recommends that Member States engage with all sectors of society, in particular with relevant organizations with an interest in the matter, including organizations of older persons, women and persons with disabilities, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote positive images of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the collective responsibility of Governments to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level, and in this sense stressing the duty of Member States to achieve the full application and implementation of the international normative framework on persons with disabilities and human rights and development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting their access to justice,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be guaranteed their full enjoyment without discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2019), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Year of Volunteers (2001), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Invites States to consider all means available for more people to become involved in voluntary action and to be drawn from a broader cross-section of society, especially from groups, including young people, older people and people with disabilities, in view of the benefits accruing to volunteers through volunteer action;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 26
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of supporting countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, and promote the empowerment of the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including women, children and youth, indigenous peoples and local communities, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2017), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that special attention should be given to those who are living in extreme poverty and in vulnerable situations, in particular women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the Secretary-General’s decision to conduct an institutional review of the current United Nations approach to mainstreaming disability across its operations, which would inform the preparation of an internal policy and action plan to strengthen the ability of the United Nations system to mainstream disabi lities, in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving global road safety (2010), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Calls upon Member States to implement road safety activities, particularly in the areas of road safety management, road infrastructure, vehicle safety, road user behaviour, including distractions in traffic, road safety education and post-crash care, including rehabilitation for people with disabilities, based on the plan of action;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 22. Encourages the Statistical Commission, within existing resources, to update guidelines for the collection and analysis of data on persons with disabilities, taking into consideration relevant recommendations of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics, and also encourages the United Nations system, including the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, within the scope of her mandate, to strengthen coherence and coordination across the United Nations system in order to promote the availability of internationally comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilities and to regularly include relevant data on disability or relevant qualitative facts, as appropriate, in relevant United Nations publications in the field of economic and social development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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: accessibility (2020), para. 39
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Calls upon all States to ensure the full enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, on an equal basis with other children, in recognition that discrimination against any child on the basis of a disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the child, to enhance inclusion and address barriers faced by children with disabilities, including addressing discriminatory, attitudinal and environmental barriers to their participation and inclusion in society and in the community, to develop gender- and age-sensitive policies and capacities to ensure the rights and address the particular needs of children with disabilities, including children in vulnerable situations, including migrant children, children without parental care, children in street situations and child victims of trafficking, and those affected by climate change, and to prevent and respond to cases of gender-based violence;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 070
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities, and to develop and enforce legislation against their discrimination so as to ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child’s active participation in the community, including effective access to educational and health services;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 025
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (i) To recognize the rights of young persons with disabilities to education without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, including by ensuring an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning, and to work, on an equal basis with others;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance in mine action (2015), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Encourages the provision of capacity-building assistance to affected countries in order to integrate assistance for victims into their national policy frameworks on health care, social services and disability-inclusive development by relevant United Nations agencies, civil society organizations and other entities with expertise in those matters;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2017), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Expresses grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities (2002), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits and their respective follow-up reviews, in particular as they pertain to the promotion of the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities on an equal and participatory basis,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples (2016), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting their access to justice,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming also the outcome document of 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, 3 held on 23 September 2013 at the level of Heads of State and Government, with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”, and reaffirming also the commitments contained therein,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2018), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Decides to hold a half-day intersessional interactive dialogue, while inviting the President of the General Assembly to participate, on ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of the Human Rights Council on issues affecting them on the first day of the twelfth session of the Expert Mechanism, requests the Office of the High Commissioner to make the interactive dialogue fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report thereon for submission to the Council prior to its forty-fourth session, and recommends that the Assembly consider that report in the ongoing process towards the enhancement of the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in the work of the United Nations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- 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. 27
- Paragraph text
- 8. Also calls upon States to strengthen efforts to empower women and girls with disabilities and enhance their participation and promote leadership in society through taking measures to address all barriers that prevent or restrict the full and equal participation of women and girls with disabilities, including in the government and public sector, the private sector, civil society and all branches and bodies of the national monitoring system of the Convention, and working to ensure that women and girls with disabilities are closely consulted and actively involved, through their representative organizations, in the design, implementation and monitoring of all legislation, policies and programmes which have an impact on their lives;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 079
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. Conscious that there is an estimated number of one hundred and fifty million children with disabilities around the world, acknowledges that national prevalence rates of disability are influenced by trends in health conditions, environmental and other factors, such as road traffic accidents, natural disasters, conflict, diet and substance abuse, and takes note in this connection of the World report on disability of 2011 by the World Health Organization and the World Bank;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Decides to convene, at its thirty-fourth session, a panel discussion on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity as a human rights priority for all States, including in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and that the discussion shall be fully accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2019), para. 138
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Recalls paragraph 24 of the report of the Advisory Committee, notes with concern that certain essential components such as safety and security equipment were previously unknown, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the project delivers renovation works that conform to relevant building codes and standards, including provisions for persons with disabilities concerning accessibility and technology, seismic mitigation and workplace safety;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Information and communications technologies for sustainable development (2019), para. 42
- Paragraph text
- 4. Reaffirms its commitment to bridging digital and knowledge divides, recognizes that its approach must be multidimensional and include an evolving understanding of what constitutes access, emphasizing the quality of that access, and acknowledges that speed, stability, affordability, language, local content and accessibility for persons with disabilities are now core elements of quality and that high-speed broadband is already an essential enabler of sustainable development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and indigenous peoples (2017), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, young people, elderly persons and persons with disabilities and to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate violence and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination in this regard, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the outcome document of the World Conference,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 17
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the work of the World Health Organization in addressing autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities in its resolutions, notably through resolution 65.4 entitled “The global burden of mental disorders and the need for a comprehensive, coordinated response from health and social sectors at the country level”, adopted on 25 May 2012 by the sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, requesting the Director General of the Organization to develop a comprehensive mental health action plan, for consideration by the sixty- sixth World Health Assembly, 5
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2016), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2006), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Decides to consider the topic “Follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family” at its sixty-second session under the item entitled “Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family”.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of the child (2004), para. 076
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Children with disabilities
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2011), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) To continue to improve accessibility and full inclusion of persons with disabilities, within existing resources, through, inter alia:
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2019), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Gravely concerned about ongoing reports of widespread sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls and instances of conflict-related rape and gang rape used as a weapon against the civilian population, including the rape of women and girls near Bentiu, coupled with beatings, abductions, sexual slavery and forced marriage, and recognizing the urgency and importance of timely investigations and of timely assistance and protection for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial, legal and livelihood support and other multisectoral services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, and of working with communities to reintegrate those affected by sexual and gender-based violence, and taking into account the specific needs of persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility (2020), para. 45
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Also calls upon States to promote and facilitate access to and sharing of accessible and assistive technologies, especially new and emerging ones, includin g information and communications systems, mobility aids, assistive devices and other assistive technologies, by persons with disabilities, and to promote research and development in this regard, so that these technologies and systems become accessible at minimum cost and at an early stage;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Outcome document of 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 (2014), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- (b) Ensure that all development policies, including those regarding poverty eradication, social inclusion, full and productive employment and decent work, and access to basic social services, and their decision-making processes take into account the needs of and benefit all persons with disabilities, including women, children, youth, indigenous peoples and older persons, who can be subject to violence and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 08
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the progress of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities in preparing a draft text of the convention,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2020), para. 70
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (l) Urges States to ensure that repatriation mechanisms allow for the identification and special protection of persons in vulnerable situations, including unaccompanied children and persons with disabilities, and take into account, in conformity with their international obligations and commitments, the principle of the best interests of the child, clarity of reception and care arrangements and family reunification;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations (1995), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- - Ensure that the rights of persons who can be particularly vulnerable to abuse or neglect, including youth, persons with disabilities, the elderly and migrant workers, are protected;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2015), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- 1. Reaffirms the outcome document of 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, 9 held on 23 September 2013, at the level of Heads of State and Government, with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”, and also reaffirms the commitments contained therein;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 39
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Further calls upon States to ensure, consistent with their obligations under international law, that they take reasonable, appropriate and effective measures to ensure that children with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system on the basis of disability, that they can access an inclusive, quality and free primary and secondary education on an equal basis with other children and in the communities in which they live, and that they are able to access tertiary education and vocational training without discrimination, and to foster knowledge and skills to facilitate the transition to the labour market and opportunities for professional growth;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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. 17
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that information and communications technologies have shown their potential to strengthen the exercise of human rights, and that they can create conditions enabling women and girls with disabilities to fully enjoy their human rights and can also contribute to their empowerment,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2013), para. 05
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also all of its previous resolutions on realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities, as well as the relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council and the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2016), para. 44
- Paragraph text
- 33. Urges all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to make the declarations provided for in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention concerning inter-State and individual communications, to consider the possibility of withdrawing their reservations to article 20, to notify the Secretary-General of their acceptance of the amendments to articles 17 and 18, with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the Committee against Torture as soon as possible, and to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted in time, their obligation to submi t reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning persons who are marginalized and most vulnerable, including children and juveniles and persons with disabilities, when submitting reports to the Committee;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2016), para. 69
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 37. Decides that, for boarding assistance under the special education grant for children with disabilities, actual expenses should be used in the calculation of the total admissible expenses for reimbursement, up to the overall grant ceiling equal to the upper limit of the top bracket of the global sliding scale plus the amount of 5,000 dollars, equivalent to the boarding lump sum paid under the regular education grant scheme;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International Day of Disabled Persons (1994), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Invites Member States to consider a way of linking, each year, the observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons with important United Nations events such as the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, the International Year of the Family, to be observed in 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development, to be held at Cairo from 5 to 13 September 1994, the World Summit for Social Development, to be held at Copenhagen on 11 and 12 March 1995, and the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, to be held at Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 30
- Paragraph text
- 5. Calls upon all States to ensure an inclusive education system at all levels and lifelong learning, as well as to promote vocational training and skills development programmes for persons with autism, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 4 and other local, national and regional policies;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of the child (2010), para. 75
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (t) To adopt measures, including providing or promoting the use of accessible means, modes and formats of communication, to facilitate the enjoyment of the right to be heard by children with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 4 the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 5 the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 6 the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 7 the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 8 the outcome document of the 2016 high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly on HIV and AIDS, entitled “Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030”, 9 the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 10 the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, launched during the first World Humanitarian Summit, and the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), 11 which contain references to the rights, participation, perspectives and well-being of persons with disabilities in development efforts,
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2008), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 135
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 86. Carers should ensure that the right of every child, including children with disabilities, living with or affected by HIV/AIDS or having any other special needs, to develop through play and leisure activities is respected and that opportunities for such activities are created within and outside the care setting. Contact with the children and others in the local community should be encouraged and facilitated.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2002), para. 09
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- Noting the invitation made to the General Assembly by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held at Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001, to consider elaborating an integral and comprehensive international convention to protect and promote the rights and dignity of disabled people, including, in particular, provisions that address the discriminatory practices and treatment affecting them,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council (2011), para. 090
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- I. Accessibility for persons with disabilities
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in society: implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and of the Long-Term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond (1995), para. 29
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- 4. Requests the regional commissions and other regional organizations to facilitate the adaptation and transfer of global approaches, standards and disability-related technology to the specific needs of the region;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 29
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- 11. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures, ensuring that they are age, gender and disability sensitive, to protect children with disabilities, both within and outside the home, including in institutions, from all forms of exploitation, violence and abuse, including emotional, verbal and physical abuse, sexual and gender-based violence, harassment, discriminatory social norms and harmful practices, female genital mutilation, child, early and forced marriage, forced or coercive medical procedures, bullying and cyberbullying, and other crimes, such as trafficking and smuggling;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2020), para. 65
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- Paragraph text
- 55. Notes the importance of States and the Office of the High Commissioner discussing and clarifying the role of the Office in mixed movements in order to better address protection needs of people in the context of mixed movements, bearing in mind the particular needs of vulnerable groups, especially women, children and persons with disabilities, including by safeguarding access to asylum for those in need of international protection, and also notes the readiness of the High Commissioner, consistent with his mandate, to assist States in fulfilling their protection responsibilities in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2019), para. 11
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- 4. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with States, relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on the Rights of the Child, special procedures and regional human rights mechanisms, as well as with civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and national human rights institutions, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion, and to make the panel discussion fully accessible for persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- 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. 23
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- 10. Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and other stakeholders to further improve coordination among existing international processes and instruments in order to advance a disability-inclusive global agenda;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 43
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- Paragraph text
- 24. Also urges States to take appropriate measures to train teachers and other professionals and staff at all educational levels in the development of the core competencies, qualifications and values necessary for working in an inclusive education environment, as well as in the use of sign language and/or Braille, to incorporate in such training disability awareness and the use of appropriate means and formats of communication, educational techniques and materials to support children with disabilities, including by developing inclusive university curricula for all future teachers, and to recruit more teachers with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- 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. 08
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming further the fact that, since the opening for signature of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto on 30 March 2007, 160 States have signed and 174 States and 1 regional integration organization have ratified or acceded to the Convention and 92 States have signed and 92 States have ratified the Optional Protocol,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Outcome document of 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 (2014), para. 05
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- 1. We, the Heads of State and Government, have gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 23 September 2013 to reaffirm our resolve to work together for disability-inclusive development and the commitment of the international community to the advancement of the rights of all persons with disabilities, which is deeply rooted in the goals of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2015), para. 18
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- Recognizing that the active involvement of persons with disabilities in sports and the Olympics contributes to the full and equal realization of their human rights, as well as respect for their inherent dignity, recalling articles 1 and 30 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 5 in which States parties recognized the right of persons with disabilities, including those with long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments, to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, with a view to enabling persons with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others in recreational, leisure and sporting activities, and noting in this regard plans to stage integrated and inclusive Games,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 35
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- 17. Recognizes that children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters and human-made hazards, and reaffirms the obligations of States under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, to take all measures necessary to ensure their safety and protection in such situations, including by reviewing emergency response programmes and support facilities to make them accessible for children with disabilities and providing timely and appropriate reintegration and rehabilitation assistance to children with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2011), para. 18
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- 8. Welcomes the adoption by the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees of the conclusion on protracted refugee situations, at the extraordinary meeting of 8 December 2009 of its sixty-first session, 9F 10 and the conclusion on refugees with disabilities and other persons with disabilities protected and assisted by the Office of the High Commissioner, at its sixty-first session, held from 4 to 8 October 2010; 10F 11
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving global road safety (2018), para. 34
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- Paragraph text
- 2. Welcomes the adoption by the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) of the New Urban Agenda, 6 which, taking into account that the majority of road traffic deaths and injuries take place in urban areas, gives appropriate consideration to road safety and access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable public transport and non-motorized modes of transport, paying special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 26
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- 4. Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to promote effective measures, as elaborated in the World Programme of Action, for the prevention of disability and the provision of appropriate habilitation and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in a manner respectful of the dignity and integrity of persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2010), para. 03
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- and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2F 3 in which persons with disabilities are recognized as both development agents and beneficiaries in all aspects of development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2013), para. 24
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- 13. Calls upon States to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities, bearing in mind the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 9 are fully integrated into torture prevention and protection, and welcomes the efforts of the Special Rapporteur in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2003), para. 19
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- 13. Also encourages Member States to include persons with disabilities and/or other experts in the field in their delegations to the meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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. 39
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- 16. Urges States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities, in particular women and girls in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters, to address violence against women and girls, providing timely and appropriate reintegration and rehabilitation assistance to persons with disabilities while ensuring that their specific needs are addressed, such as access to health-care services, psychosocial support and educational programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2014), para. 22
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- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting access to justice by indigenous peoples, indigenous women, children, youth and persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- 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 through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 19
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- 6. Reaffirms the role of the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability, and encourages States, intergovernmental organizations, concerned non-governmental organizations and the private sector to continue to support the Fund, with a view to strengthening its capacity to support catalytic and innovative activities to implement fully the development goals and objectives of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 1 the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities 2 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 including the work of the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development, and to facilitate international cooperation, including building national capacities, with emphasis on priorities for action identified in the present resolution;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to informationInformation in the service of humanity (2017), para. 108
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- 74. Recalls paragraph 32 of its resolution 69/324 , notes with concern the disparity between the English and the non-English languages on the websites maintained by the Secretariat, urges the Secretary-General to lead the efforts of all offices and departments of the Secretariat to take concrete action to address such uneven development, and in this regard calls upon all stakeholders, including the Department of Public Information, content-providing offices and departments, in particular the Office of Information and Communications Technology of the Secretariat, to continue their collaboration, within their respective mandates, so as to achieve full parity among the six official languages on all United Nations websites developed and maintained by all Secretariat entities, in full conformity with the principles of multilingualism and in compliance with the relevant resolutions addressing multilingualism and accessibility for persons with disabilities, by making every effort to translate materials currently available only in English and by providing offices and departments with technological solutions that comply with the principle of parity, from within existing resources;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 07
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- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 12 which is inclusive of persons with disabilities and in which Member States pledged to leave no one behind, and acknowledging that Member States, while implementing the 2030 Agenda, should, inter alia, respect, protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without discrimination of any kind,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
National human rights institutions (2020), para. 18
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- Paragraph text
- Noting with appreciation the opportunities afforded to national human rights institutions to contribute to the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and to the Commission on the Status of Women, and noting in this regard the efforts to further enhance the participation of national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris Principles at the sessions of the Commission, in compliance with the rules of procedure of the Economic and Social Council,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperatives in social development (2010), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a major factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in society: implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and of the Long-Term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond (1995), para. 22
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- 10. Invites Governments and the private sector to provide meaningful assistance to the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability, with a view to providing additional support to the implementation of the Standard Rules, within the context of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2019), para. 081
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- Paragraph text
- 47. Calls upon Member States, relevant humanitarian organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant humanitarian actors to ensure non-discrimination and opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others in humanitarian preparedness and response;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2005), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be guaranteed their full enjoyment without discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 31. Decides to change the title of sub-item (b) of the item entitled “Social development” on the agenda of the General Assembly to read: “Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, persons with disabilities and the family”;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Disaster risk reduction (2020), para. 63
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- Paragraph text
- 39. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective and the perspectives of persons with disabilities, as well as other people in vulnerable situations, in disaster risk management, and of engaging and appropriately drawing on the capacities of children, youth, including young professionals, as contributors in disaster risk management so as to strengthen the resilience of communities and reduce social vulnerabilities to disasters, and in this regard recognizes the need for the inclusive participation and contribution of women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as the role of youth, volunteers, migrants, academia, scientific and research entities and networks, business, professional associations, private sector financing institutions and the media, in all forums and processes related to disaster risk reduction, in accordance with the Sendai Framework;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The rights of the child (1999), para. 31
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Welcomes the increased attention given by the Committee on the Rights of the Child to the equal enjoyment by children with disabilities of the rights of the child, and takes note of the thematic discussion held in 1997 on the rights of children with disabilities, as well as the recommendations adopted; 10
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (2016), para. 068
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 58. We strongly encourage cooperation among countries of origin or nationality, countries of transit, countries of destination and other relevant countries in ensuring that migrants who do not have permission to stay in the country of destination can return, in accordance with international obligations of all States, to their country of origin or nationality in a safe, orderly and dignified manner, preferably on a voluntary basis, taking into account national legislation in line with international law. We note that cooperation on return and readmission forms an important element of international cooperation on migration. Such cooperation would include ensuring proper identification and the provision of relevant travel documents. Any type of return, whether voluntary or otherwise, must be consistent with our obligations under international human rights law and in compliance with the principle of non-refoulement. It should also respect the rules of international law and must in addition be conducted in keeping with the best interests of children and with d ue process. While recognizing that they apply only to States that have entered into them, we acknowledge that existing readmission agreements should be fully implemented. We support enhanced reception and reintegration assistance for those who are returned. Particular attention should be paid to the needs of migrants in vulnerable situations who return, such as children, older persons, persons with disabilities and victims of trafficking.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 50
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Calls upon Member States, relevant regional organizations and United Nations bodies and agencies to take into account the rights, participation, perspectives and needs of persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others in ensuring that all development policies and programmes, including those regarding poverty eradication, discrimination and the elimination of all forms of violence and abuse for women and girls with disabilities, social protection, full and productive employment and decent work, and appropriate measures for financial inclusion, as well as urban and rural planning and accessible community and housing development, including the objectives and principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, are translated into concrete actions;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 48
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. Also calls upon States to promote partnerships with teachers’, students’ and parents’ associations, organizations of children with disabilities, sports organizations and other school support groups, and the involvement of children with disabilities, in accordance with their age and maturity, of parents, of caregivers and of the community, including, as appropriate, in all aspects of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of inclusive education policies;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in society: implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and of the Long-Term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond (1995), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2004), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also its relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 3 resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and resolution 56/115 of 19 December 2001, as well as the relevant resolutions of the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Accreditation and participation of non-governmental organizations in the Ad Hoc Committee on aComprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2002), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- 1. Decides that accreditation of non-governmental organizations to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities shall be granted to all non-governmental organizations enjoying consultative status with the Economic and Social Council;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2013), para. 09
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the importance of collecting and analysing reliable data on persons with disabilities following existing guidelines on disability statistics, 7 encouraging ongoing efforts to improve data collection in order to disaggregate data with regard to persons with disabilities, and underlining the need to have internationally comparable data to assess progress on disability-inclusive development policies,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (2013), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- 3. Urges Member States, international and regional organizations, regional integration organizations and financial institutions to make a concerted effort to include persons with disabilities and integrate the principles of accessibility and inclusion in the monitoring and evaluation of the development goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2020), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- (vii) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperatives in social development (2008), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older people, people with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a major factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016), para. 113
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) Use the registration process to identify specific assistance needs and protection arrangements, where possible, including but not exclusively for refugees with special protection concerns, such as women at risk, children, especially unaccompanied children and children separated from their families, child-headed and single-parent households, victims of trafficking, victims of trauma and survivors of sexual violence, as well as refugees with disabilities and older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Multilingualism (2009), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, and recognizing the importance of the capacity to communicate to the peoples of the world in their own languages, including in formats accessible to persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2016), para. 33
- Paragraph text
- (x) Addressing the lack of quality, accessible, timely and reliable data disaggregated by sex and age and statistical information on disabilities, to help with the measurement of progress and to ensure that no one is left behind, including by intensifying efforts to include women’s unpaid work in official statistics, and developing a systematic and comparative research base on rural women that will inform policy and programme decisions;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2002), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his efforts in improving the accessibility of the United Nations for persons with disabilities, and urges him to continue to implement plans to provide a barrier-free environment;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting social integration through social inclusion (2018), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Stresses the importance of promoting inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all, especially for older persons and persons with disabilities, and of skills development and quality training, as essential means for inclusive participation and integration in society;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 043
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. We recognize the need to give particular attention to addressing multiple forms of discrimination faced by, inter alia, women and girls, children and youth, persons with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons, indigenous peoples and local communities, slum and informal-settlement dwellers, homeless people, workers, smallholder farmers and fishers, refugees, returnees, internally displaced persons and migrants, regardless of their migration status.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order (2011), para. 57
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (f) To integrate a gender perspective and a disabilities perspective into his or her work;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Impact of arms transfers on human rights (2016), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Expresses its deep concern at the fact that arms transfers, particularly those that are illicit or unregulated, may seriously undermine the human rights of individuals, especially women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2015), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Condemns the continuing unilateral application and enforcement by certain Powers of unilateral coercive measures, and rejects those measures, with all their extraterritorial effects, as being tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, adopted with a view to preventing those countries from exercising their right to decide, of their own free will, their own political, economic and social systems, and because of the negative effects of those measures on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recommendations on support for volunteering (2002), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Decides that on 5 December 2002, International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, two plenary meetings at the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly shall be devoted to the outcome of the International Year of Volunteers and its follow-up under the agenda item entitled “Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family”;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Encourages States to take steps to establish or strengthen, as appropriate, national monitoring and accountability mechanisms, with broad inclusive multi-stakeholder participation, including that of children with disabilities and their representative organizations, to ensure that laws, policies and programmes are oriented for the promotion and protection of the rights of children with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 126
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- Paragraph text
- 114. The creation, development and diffusion of new innovations and technologies and associated know-how, including the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, are powerful drivers of economic growth and sustainable development. However, we note with concern the persistent “digital divide” and the uneven innovative capacity, connectivity and access to technology, including information and communications technology, within and between countries. We will promote the development and use of information and communications technology infrastructure, as well as capacity-building, particularly in least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, including rapid universal and affordable access to the Internet. We will promote access to technology and science for women, youth and children. We will further facilitate accessible technology for persons with disabilities.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2009), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe and nutritious food are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- 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. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) Ensuring that the principles of equality and non-discrimination for persons with disabilities are integrated across the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Encourages Governments to develop and accelerate the exchange of information, guidelines, 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2016), para. 31
- Paragraph text
- (viii) Violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of children , in particular the continued lack of access to basic economic, social and cultural rights for many children, and in this regard notes the particularly vulnerable situation faced by, inter alia, returned or repatriated children, street children, children with disabilities, children whose parents are detained, children living in detention or in institutions and children in conflict with the law;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 49
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Encourages Member States that have not yet done so to adopt a national disability strategy that can be operationalized, including through measurable and appropriate targets and indicators, and that assigns responsibility to and incorporates the views of a broad range of stakeholders, including persons with disabilities and their representative organizations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2015), para. 056
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 45. Welcomes the measures taken to ensure access to and use of conference services and conference facilities for persons with disabilities, including the establishment of the Accessibility Centre, and encourages the Secretary-General to continue further efforts in this regard and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventieth session;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2010), para. 13
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- Paragraph text
- 7. Expresses particular concern at the grave problems faced by many internally displaced women and children, including violence and abuse, sexual and labour exploitation, trafficking in persons, forced recruitment and abduction, and notes the need to continue to pay more systematic and in-depth attention to their special assistance, protection and development needs, as well as those of other groups with special needs, such as older persons, persons with disabilities and severely traumatized individuals affected by internal displacement, taking into account the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway (2014), para. 177
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) To tackle the structural and socioeconomic inequalities and multiple intersecting forms of discrimination that affect women and girls, including those with disabilities, that hinder progress and development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (2003), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the Plan of Action for the African Decade of Disabled Persons, endorsed by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity at its seventy-sixth ordinary session, held in Durban from 28 June to 6 July 2002,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (2017), para. 35
- Paragraph text
- 13. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures, including sufficient budgetary allocations, to ensure inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory quality education, and to promote learning opportunities for all, paying particular attention to girls, marginalized children, older persons, persons with disabilities and persons with low qualifications;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and other stakeholders to foster cooperation and to further improve coordination among existing international processes and instruments in order to advance a disability-inclusive global agenda and to facilitate cross-learning and the sharing of information, practices, tools and resources that are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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: accessibility (2020), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Recommends that Member States take into account the needs and requirements of older persons with disabilities in national development plans and national policies, including through the collection of data disaggregated by sex, age and disability, and encourage communities to develop targeted services for older persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 32
- Paragraph text
- 7. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all Member States and United Nations organizations as a contribution to the preparations for 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, to be held on 23 September 2013.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 56/168 of 19 December 2001, by which it decided to establish an Ad Hoc Committee, open to the participation of all Member States and observers to the United Nations, to consider proposals for a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, based on a holistic approach in the work done in the fields of social development, human rights and non-discrimination and taking into account the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission for Social Development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (1998), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Requests the Secretary-General to develop a plan to increase the accessibility of the United Nations and its offices and meetings to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities (2002), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2000/10 of 27 July 2000 on further promotion of equalization of opportunities by, for and with persons with disabilities, as well as other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the functional commissions of the Council,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of democratization (2016), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Calls upon all States to ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives, including the right and opportunity for persons with disabilities to vote and to be elected;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Urges States to take all measures necessary to ensure the full enjoyment by girls with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms , on an equal basis with other children, and to adopt, implement and strengthen appropriate policies and programmes designed to address their needs;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- 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. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (n) Providing training to judicial officers, lawyers and others, including forensic experts, prison staff and the police, on the human rights of persons with disabilities in order to overcome barriers in their effective access to justice, on an equal basis with others;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance in mine action (2013), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Encourages the provision of capacity-building assistance to affected countries in order to integrate assistance for victims into their national policy frameworks on health care, social services and disability-inclusive development by relevant civil society organizations and other relevant entities with expertise in those matters, including the United Nations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2018), para. 49
- Paragraph text
- 36. Urges all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to make the declarations provided for in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention concerning inter-State and individual communications, to consider the possibility of withdrawing their reservations to article 20, to notify the Secretary-General of their acceptance of the amendments to articles 17 and 18, with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the Committee against Torture as soon as possible, and to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted in time, their obligation to submit reports in accordance wit h article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning persons who are marginalized and most vulnerable, including children and juveniles and persons with disabilities, when submitting repo rts to the Committee;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2017), para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that women, youth, children, indigenous persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, persons living with HIV and people of African descent face particular challenges and multifaceted and intersecting forms of discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2009), para. 20
- Paragraph text
- (vii) Continuing reports of violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with disabilities, especially on the use of collective camps and of coercive measures that target the rights of persons with disabilities to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006), para. 16
- Paragraph text
- 7. Stresses the need for additional efforts to ensure accessibility at the United Nations, with reasonable accommodation regarding facilities and documentation, for all persons with disabilities, in accordance with General Assembly decision 56/474 of 23 July 2002;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, by mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication measures, women’s empowerment strategies and national development plans, and to include both ageing-specific policies and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their national strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to information (2010), para. 073
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 41. Appreciates the work of the Department of Public Information in promoting, through its campaigns, issues of importance to the international community, such as the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the progress made in implementing the internationally agreed development goals, United Nations reform, the eradication of poverty, conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, sustainable development, disarmament, decolonization, human rights, including the rights of women and children and of persons with disabilities, strategic coordination in humanitarian relief, especially in natural disasters and other crises, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases, the needs of the African continent and combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, dialogue among civilizations, the culture of peace and tolerance and the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, as well as prevention of genocide, and requests the Department to continue to carry out information activities on all these issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 062
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) Adopting and enforcing laws and improving the implementation of policies and programmes, budget allocation and human resources to support children, particularly children with disabilities and children living in disadvantaged, stigmatized and marginalized families, to address the root causes of unnecessary family separation and ensure that they are cared for effectively by their own families and communities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2015), para. 59
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities and address the challenges posed to social development by globalization and market driven reforms in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2010), para. 19
- Paragraph text
- 10. Calls upon States to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities, bearing in mind the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 7F 8 are fully integrated into torture prevention and protection, and welcomes the efforts of the Special Rapporteur in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that early diagnosis, appropriate research and effective interventions are vital to the growth and development of the individual, and emphasizing that early intervention is crucial for addressing the needs of the individual with autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities, thus improving the opportunities to live a quality life with the ability to participate in the greater community and increasing the likelihood that an individual will need lower levels of support later in life,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to information (2010), para. 097
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 61. Recognizes the efforts made by the Department of Public Information to implement the basic accessibility requirements for persons with disabilities to access the United Nations website, and calls upon the Department to continue to work towards compliance with accessibility requirements on all new and updated pages of the website, with the aim of ensuring its accessibility for persons with different kinds of disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2006), para. 07
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the importance of the active participation of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee, and their valuable contribution to the promotion of the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Outcome document of 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 (2014), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- (e) Ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities to health-care services, including primary health-care and specialized services, inter alia, by investing in and improving the affordability of such services for persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Integrating volunteering in the next decade (2013), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Invites Member States to mobilize and support the research community globally to carry out more studies on the subject of volunteerism, including collecting data disaggregated by gender, age and disability, in partnership with civil society, in order to provide sound knowledge as a foundation for policies and programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2015), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, one third of the children not attending school are children with disabilities and that the literacy rate among adults with disabilities is as low as 3 per cent in some countries,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in society: implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, and of the Long-Term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond (1995), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming the rights, participation, perspectives and needs of persons with disabilities into disaster risk reduction and response, recognizes the need for their inclusion in and contribution to disaster preparedness, emergency response, recovery and the transition from relief to development, as well as the implementation of policies and programmes that are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities, and also recognizes the disproportionate impact of disasters on women and girls with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The right to food (2011), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Reaffirms the need to ensure that programmes delivering safe and nutritious food are inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 170
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 134. We will support appropriate policies and capacities that enable subnational and local governments to register and expand their potential revenue base, for example through multipurpose cadastres, local taxes, fees and service charges, in lin e with national policies, while ensuring that women and girls, children and youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, and poor households are not disproportionately affected.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2007), para. 23
- Paragraph text
- 16. Urges States parties to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted in time, their obligation to submit reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning children and juveniles and persons with disabilities when submitting reports to the Committee against Torture;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Moratorium on the use of the death penalty (2017), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) To progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and not to impose capital punishment for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age, on pregnant women or on persons with mental or intellectual disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of the plan of action for the fourth phase (2019), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Also decides to convene at its forty-eighth session a high-level panel discussion to mark the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training on the theme “The tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training: good practices, challenges and the way forward”, decides further that the discussion will be fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report of the discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council by its forty-ninth session.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Inclusive development for persons with disabilities (2017), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling all operational frameworks in which persons with disabilities are recognized as both development agents and beneficiaries in all aspects of development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 22
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- 2. Recognizes that, in order to develop and implement feasible, effective and sustainable intervention programmes for addressing autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities, an innovative, integrated approach would benefit from a focus, inter alia, on:
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 15
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- Mindful of the need to adopt and implement effective policies and strategies in all Member States, United Nations agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and regional commissions of the United Nations to promote the rights and the full and effective participation of persons with disabilities at all levels,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (2017), para. 10
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- 3. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities for a further period of three years, with the following mandate:
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 38
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- 25. Implement the most effective, high-impact, quality-assured, people- centred, gender- and disability-responsive and evidence-based interventions to meet the health needs of all throughout the life course, and in particular those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations, ensuring universal access to nationally determined sets of integrated quality health services at all levels of care for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care in a timely manner;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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. 27
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- 5. Reaffirms that the issues of equalization of opportunities and full inclusion in society for persons with disabilities will be an important part of the preparatory process and the agenda of the World Summit for Social Development to be held at Copenhagen on 11 and 12 March 1995;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 23
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 7 including his recommendations to mainstream the disability perspective in United Nations international and national development frameworks and to consider the effective synergy in monitoring the implementation of the existing international frameworks on disability;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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 (2020), para. 41
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- (v) 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 programmes, through, inter alia, their participation in decision-making processes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Integrating volunteering into peace and development: the plan of action for the next decade and beyond (2016), para. 12
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- 3. Encourages Governments, in partnership with United Nations entities, volunteer-involving organizations, the private sector, civil society, including academia, and other stakeholders, to integrate volunteerism into national development strategies, plans and policies, United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and “One United Nations” plans, and also encourages the meaningful participation and integration of volunteers into progra mmes and projects through the provision of adequate means for volunteer action to promote the inclusion of all people, including youth, older persons, women, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities, minorities and other marginalized groups, to levera ge the full potential of volunteerism;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 027
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- 3. Reaffirms the right of the child to express their views freely in all matters and decisions affecting their health, and that those views should be given due weight in accordance with their evolving capacities, and calls upon States to provide disability-, gender- and age-sensitive assistance to enable active and equal participation of all children;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2004), para. 08
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- Noting also the preparatory work of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities in establishing a working group with the aim of preparing and presenting a draft text that would be the basis for the negotiation of the draft convention,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (2017), para. 17
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- (g) To cooperate closely with the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Commission for Social Development, including by participating in their annual sessions upon request;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- 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. 22
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- Welcoming also the work of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and taking note with appreciation of its general comments,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (1999), para. 34
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- 4. Also calls upon all States to promote for children with disabilities a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child’s active participation in the community, including effective access to education and health services;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2020), para. 32
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- Stressing the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting their equal access to justice,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of international cooperation in support of national efforts for the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities (2011), para. 09
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- 1. Welcomes the fact that, to date, one hundred and forty-seven States and one regional integration organization have signed and ninety-nine States ratified or acceded to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and that ninety States have signed and sixty-one States have ratified or acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention, and calls upon those States and regional integration organizations that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto to consider doing so as a matter of priority;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018), para. 07
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- 4. Welcomes the engagement of the Islamic Republic of Iran with human rights treaty bodies, including through the submission of periodic reports, and notes in particular the engagement of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its participation in the universal periodic review;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 05
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- Recognizing the need to promote and protect the human rights of all persons with disabilities, including all individuals with autism spectrum disorders, by, inter alia, ensuring equal opportunities to achieve their optimal developmental potential and to participate in society,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2008), para. 02
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- Recalling its previous resolutions concerning persons with disabilities, particularly resolution 60/131 of 16 December 2005, in which it recognized the important role of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons 0F 1 in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (2003), para. 06
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- Reaffirming the need to promote and protect the equal and effective enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities, aware of the contribution that a convention could make in this regard and thus convinced of the need to continue to consider proposals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities (2006), para. 35
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- 13. Encourages Governments, intergovernmental organizations, concerned non-governmental organizations and the private sector to continue to support the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability, with a view to strengthening its capacity to support catalytic and innovative activities to implement fully the World Programme of Action and the Standard Rules, including the work of the Special Rapporteur, and to support activities to build national capacities, with emphasis on priorities for action identified in the present resolution;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 22
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- 9. Also urges States to take, in accordance with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, all necessary measures 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;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- 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. 48
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- 17. Encourages the Commission for Social Development, within its mandate, to continue to provide its relevant input regarding persons with disabilities to the Economic and Social Council and to the high-level political forum on sustainable development, as appropriate, in order to support the relevant discussions on persons with disabilities in the follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the Convention on the Rights of the Child 3 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 4 according to which individuals with disabilities should enjoy a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the individual’s active participation in the community, as well as the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other individuals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International financial system and development (2016), para. 20
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- Recalling the commitment to work in solidarity on a coordinated and comprehensive global response to the ongoing impacts of the consequences of the world financial and economic crisis on development and to take actions aimed at, inter alia, restoring confidence, sustaining economic growth and creating full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including you ng people and people with disabilities, and equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- 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. 20
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- 2. Urges the Secretary-General to strengthen, through redeployment of resources, the United Nations programme on disabled persons in order to enable it:
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The work and employment of persons with disabilities (2013), para. 22
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- (d) Employing persons with disabilities in the public sector and considering setting targets for such employment;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems (2013), para. 126
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- (a) To provide all persons, on admission to the place of imprisonment and during their detention, with information on the rules of the place of imprisonment and their rights under the law, including the right to confidential legal aid, advice and assistance; the possibilities for further review of their case; their rights during disciplinary proceedings; and procedures for complaint, appeal, early release, pardon or clemency. Such information should be provided in a manner that corresponds to the needs of illiterate persons, minorities, persons with disabilities and children and should be in a language that the person in need of legal aid understands. Information provided to children should be provided in a manner appropriate for their age and maturity. The information material should be supported by visual aids prominently located in those parts of the facilities to which prisoners have regular access;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016), para. 029
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- 23. We recognize and will address, in accordance with our obligations under international law, the special needs of all people in vulnerable situations who are travelling within large movements of refugees and migrants, including women at risk, children, especially those who are unaccompanied or separated from their families, members of ethnic and religious minorities, victims of violence, older persons, persons with disabilities, persons who are discriminated against on any basis, indigenous peoples, victims of human trafficking, and victims of exploitation and abuse in the context of the smuggling of migrants.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (2015), para. 18
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- 9. Acknowledges with appreciation the important contributions received from the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, 24 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as well as other submissions received for consideration from a number of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and invites them in this regard to continue to be actively involved in the Expert Group process, in accordance with the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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. 22
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- Paragraph text
- 11. Encourages international cooperation in the implementation of the 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 52
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 32. Encourages the special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the Human Rights Council to continue to integrate a child rights perspective while implementing their mandates, and to include in their reports information, qualitative analysis and recommendations on the rights of the child, paying particular attention to the rights of children with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addressing the socioeconomic needs of individuals, families and societies affected by autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities (2013), para. 31
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- 6. Also calls upon all States to enable persons with autism spectrum disorders, developmental disorders and associated disabilities to learn life and social development skills to facilitate their full and equal participation in education and as members of the community;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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 (2016), para. 29
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- 16. Encourages all relevant United Nations mechanisms and processes, in accordance with their respective mandates, including 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 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the high -level political forum on sustainable development, to further enhance the participation of national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris Principles and to allow for their contribution to these United Nations mechanisms and processes, bearing in mind the relevant provisions dealing with their participation contained in General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, 5/2 and 16/21 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the role of the United Nations in enhancing periodic and genuine elections and the promotion of democratization (2020), para. 23
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- Recognizing the need to strengthen democratic processes, electoral institutions and national capacity-building in requesting countries, including the capacity to administer fair elections, promote voter education, the development of electora l expertise and technology and the participation of women on equal terms with men, take all appropriate measures to ensure the effective and full participation of all persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others, increase citizen participation and provide civic education, including to youth, in requesting countries in order to consolidate and regularize the achievements of previous elections and support subsequent elections,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2006), para. 05
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- Acknowledging also that sport and physical education can present opportunities for solidarity and cooperation in order to promote tolerance, a culture of peace, social and gender equality, adequate responses to the special needs of persons with disabilities, intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and harmony,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar (2019), para. 37
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- 22. Encourages the international community, in the true spirit of interdependence and burden-sharing, to continue to assist Bangladesh in the provision of humanitarian assistance to forcibly displaced Rohingya Muslims and other minorities until their return to their places of origin in Myanmar, and to assist Myanmar in the provision of humanitarian assistance to all affected persons of all communities displaced internally in Myanmar, including in Rakhine State, taking into account the vulnerable situation of women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome document of 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 (2014), para. 29
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- 6. We call upon the Economic and Social Council to give due consideration to the issue of disability and development, including within the framework of United Nations operational activities, in accordance with relevant mandates, in order to enhance awareness and cooperation at all levels, including the participation, where appropriate, of United Nations agencies, multilateral development banks and institutions and other relevant stakeholders, while ensuring coordination and avoiding possible overlapping.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 21
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- 8. Urges States to pay special attention to the gender- and age-specific needs of persons with disabilities, including by taking measures to ensure their full and effective enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of international cooperation in support of national efforts for the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities (2011), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Encourages all actors to give appropriate consideration to the rights of persons with disabilities in all phases of humanitarian operations, from preparedness to assistance, transition and handover of relief operations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- 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. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned that the lack of data and information on disability and the situation of persons with disabilities at the national level contributes to the invisibility of persons with disabilities in official statistics, presenting an obstacle to achieving development planning and implementation that is inclusive of persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 073
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Governments should facilitate the development of ICT capacity for youth, including indigenous youth, youth with disabilities and youth in remote and rural communities.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2019), para. 020
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern that women, persons with disabilities, older persons, children and youth are disproportionately affected in natural disasters,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends (1995), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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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- Paragraph text
- 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
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
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- 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,
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- Persons with disabilities
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- 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;
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- Persons with disabilities
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- 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
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- 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,
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- Persons with disabilities
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03
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- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- 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. 33
- Paragraph text
- 14. Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, including sexual violence and abuse, against women and girls with disabilities without delay, including by:
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009), para. 32
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- (c) To request the Inter-Agency Support Group on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to integrate the rights of persons with disabilities into United Nations development activities and to provide guidelines for United Nations country teams.
- 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. 42
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- 11. Affirms that persons with disabilities, including children, have the right to inclusive and equitable education and lifelong learning opportunities on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination, and urges Member States to ensure full access to education and lifelong learning opportunities for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others by taking appropriate steps through the provision of information in accessible and alternative communication formats, reasonable accommodation and other support, as required;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 50
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- Paragraph text
- 31. Urges States to take steps to adopt inclusive strategies for comprehensive school safety and security in emergencies, including with respect to disaster risk reduction, that are sensitive to learners with disabilities, in order to address the disproportionate impact of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural and human-made hazards on the right to education, including for children with disabilities who are displaced or compelled to migrate due to such situations;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2018), para. 091
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- 53. Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming the perspective of persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction, recognizes the importance of non-discrimination and their inclusive and active participation in and contribution to disaster risk reduction, preparedness, emergency response, recovery and transition from relief to development, as well as the implementation of policies and programmes that are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities, recognizing that persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected in humanitarian emergencies and face multiple obstacles in accessing humanitarian assistance, and recalls the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2016), para. 045
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- 18. Remains deeply concerned about the persistent problem of anti-personnel landmines and explosive remnants of war, which constitute a great danger to the population and a major obstacle to the resumption of social and economic activities and to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, early recovery and reconstruction efforts, welcomes the achievements to date in the implementation of the Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan, underscores the importance of sustained international assistance for the implementation of the 10-year operational workplan of the Mine Action Programme, aimed at declaring Afghanistan mine -free by 2023, encourages the Government of Afghanistan, with the support of the United Nations and all relevant actors, to continue its efforts to meet its responsibilities under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 8 to eliminate all known or new stocks of anti-personal landmines, and to cooperate fully with the Mine Action Programme, and to continue removal of anti-personnel landmines, anti-vehicle landmines and explosive remnants of war, and expresses the need to p rovide assistance for the care, rehabilitation, and economic and social reintegration of victims, including persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2018), para. 196
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- Paragraph text
- 10. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the implementation of the strategic heritage plan takes into account measures to eliminate physical, communications and technical barriers to persons with disabilities, taking into account relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, while ensu ring compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 34 and to report on this subject in future annual progress reports;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2019), para. 17
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- Paragraph text
- (d) The Federal Government’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in August 2019, and enactment of a law establishing a disability authority led by a person with disabilities; and its commitment to entrench the rights of persons with disabilities in social, educational, political and economic life through the first- ever national disability bill for Somalia and other legislative mechanisms, improving the collection of data on persons with disabilities, and by approving the creation of a national disability agency;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic (2017), para. 47
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- Paragraph text
- 20. Remains deeply concerned by the conditions of displaced persons and refugees, and encourages the international community to support the national authorities and host countries to ensure appropriate protection and support for victims of violence, in particular women, children and persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (2017), para. 09
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- 2. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2018), para. 45
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- 35. Affirms the importance of age, gender and diversity mainstreaming in analysing protection needs and ensuring the participation of refugees and other persons of concern to the Office of the High Commissioner, as appropriate, in the planning and implementation of programmes of the Office and of State policies, also affirms the importance of according priority to addressing discrimination, gender inequality and the problem of sexual and gender-based violence, recognizing the importance of addressing the protection needs of women, children and persons with disabilities in particular, and underlines the importance of continuing to work on those issues;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on empowering children with disabilities, including through inclusive education; 2 2. Urges States to take all measures necessary to ensure the full enjoyment by children with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children, without discrimination of any kind;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of international cooperation in support of national efforts for the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities (2011), para. 23
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- Paragraph text
- 14. Takes note with interest of the ongoing discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization on exceptions and limitations to copyright to enhance access to copyrighted works for persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons: towards a society for all in the twenty-first century (2004), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with appreciation the important contributions of regional intergovernmental organizations and the regional commissions of the United Nations in promoting awareness and building capacities for the full participation and equality of persons with disabilities, as well as the outcome of international conferences relating to persons with disabilities,
- 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 (2009), para. 26
- Paragraph text
- 9. Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying and acceding to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 4 and the International Convention against Doping in Sport; 5
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018), para. 64
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- Paragraph text
- 26. Stresses the importance of taking targeted measures to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, of implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including social protection floors, and of achieving substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable, and encourages Member States to continue to develop and implement social protection floors based on national priorities, paying p articular attention to women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Cambodia (1997), para. 33
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- Paragraph text
- 24. Requests the Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with the relevant specialized agencies and development programmes, to develop and implement programmes, with the consent and cooperation of the Government of Cambodia, in the priority areas identified by the Special Representative, paying particular attention to vulnerable groups, including women, children, disabled persons and minorities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education (2019), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Child rights-based approach to children with disabilities
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal (2017), para. 23
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that the active involvement of persons with disabilities in sports and the Paralympic Games contributes to the full and equal realization of their human rights, as well as respect for their inherent dignity, recalling articles 1 and 30 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 6 in which States parties recognized the right of persons with disabilities, including those with long -term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments, to take part on an equal basis with others in cultural life, with a view to enabling persons with disabilities to participate on an equal basis with others in recreational, leisure and sporting activities, and noting in this regard plans to stage integrated and inclusive Games,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (2019), para. 49
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- Paragraph text
- 35. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report during the seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly on the ways to improve the accessibility of the United Nations Headquarters premises for persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 078
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- Paragraph text
- 35. Encourages the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities to consider the issue of children with disabilities in its deliberations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2017), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of providing timely assistance and protection to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial, legal and livelihood support and other multi-sectoral services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including working with communities to reintegrate those affected by sexual and gender-based violence, and taking into account the specific needs of persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- 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. 21
- Paragraph text
- (c) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women and, as appropriate, girls, including those who are indigenous, those with disabilities and older women, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of and follow-up to programmes and strategies for gender equality, the empowerment of women and rural development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Capital master plan (2011), para. 58
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- Paragraph text
- 46. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to make provisions for appropriate health and wellness facilities and improved physical accessibility for persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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