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information and communications technologies and systems) and other facilities and
services open or provided to the public in both rural and urban areas;
18. Also urges Member States, at the local, regional and national levels, to
improve road safety for persons with disabilities and to integrate road safety into
sustainable mobility and transport infrastructure planning and design in ci ties and
other human settlements;
19. Stresses the importance of enabling persons with disabilities to
participate on an equal basis with others in recreational, leisure and sporting
activities and of promoting sports for athletes with disabilities, witho ut
discrimination of any kind;
20. Welcomes the contributions made to the trust fund for the United Nations
Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in this regard
encourages Member States and other stakeholders to support its o bjectives,
including by providing voluntary contributions;
21. 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 data and statistics on persons with
disabilities, in particular to developing countries, and in this regard requests the
Secretary-General, in accordance with existing international guidelines on disability
statistics, to analyse, publish and disseminate disability data and statistics in future
periodic reports, as appropriate, on the realization of the Sustainable Development
Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with
disabilities;
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;
23. Encourages Member States to take appropriate steps to expedite the
mainstreaming of data on disability into official statistics;
24. Takes note of the multi-stakeholder panel discussion on the
implementation of the post-2015 development agenda in the light of the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held on 5 February 2016, during the fiftyfourth session of the Commission for Social Development, and recognizes the
importance of undertaking similar initiatives in the future and the continued
inclusion of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations;
25. Requests the Secretary-General, in coordination with all relevant United
Nations entities, to submit information to the General Assembly at its sevent y-third
session on the implementation of the present resolution and of 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 and to make appropriate recommendations to
further strengthen implementation.
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