Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed
development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond
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8.
Welcomes Human Rights Council resolution 26/20 of 27 June 2014, 13 in
which the Council established the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of
persons with disabilities, which included making concrete recommendations on how to
better promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities, including how to
contribute to the realization of internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals, for persons with disabilities, how to promote
development that is inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities and how to
promote their role as both agents for and beneficiaries of development;
9.
Urges Member States, United Nations agencies, international and regional
organizations, regional integration organizations and financial institutions to make a
concerted effort to include persons with disabilities and to integrate the principles of
accessibility and inclusion into the monitoring and evaluation of the development goals;
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;
11. Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming the perspectives of persons
with disabilities in disaster risk reduction, and recognizes the need for their inclusive
participation 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;
12. Encourages the mobilization of resources on a sustainable basis to
mainstream disability in development at all levels, and in this regard underlines the need
to promote and strengthen international cooperation, including South-South and
triangular cooperation, in support of national efforts, including, as appropriate, through
the establishment of national mechanisms, in particular in developing countries;
13. Welcomes the contributions made to the United Nations Partnership to
Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities trust fund, and in this regard encourages
Member States and other stakeholders to support its objectives, including by providing
voluntary contributions;
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;
15. Welcomes the opening of the Accessibility Centre at United Nations
Headquarters in New York, and requests the Secretary-General to continue the
progressive implementation of relevant standards and guidelines with respect to the
accessibility of facilities and services in the United Nations system, taking into account
relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,3 in
particular when undertaking renovations, including interim arrangements;
16. Encourages Member States, United Nations organizations and mechanisms,
including the newly appointed Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
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