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
A/RES/68/3
(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;
(f) Strengthen social protection for meeting disability-related needs and
promote access to relevant schemes based on social protection floors, on an equal
basis with others, including income support, and access to appropriate and
affordable services, devices and other assistance;
(g) Encourage Member States to take sustainable measures 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 and vocational and entrepreneurial
training, in order to enable persons with disabilities to attain and maintain maximum
independence;
(h) Ensure accessibility, following the universal design approach, by
removing barriers to the physical environment, transportation, employment,
education, health, services, information and assistive devices, such as information
and communications technologies, including in remote or rural areas, to achieve the
fullest potential throughout the whole life cycle of persons with disabilities;
(i) Improve disability data collection, analysis and monitoring for
development policy planning, implementation and evaluation, fully taking into
account regional contexts, share, where appropriate, relevant data and statistics with
relevant agencies and bodies within the United Nations system, including the
Statistical Commission, through appropriate mechanisms, and underline the need for
internationally comparable data and statistics disaggregated by sex and age,
including information on disability;
(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;
(k) Urge Member States, the United Nations system and humanitarian actors,
in accordance with their relevant mandates, to continue to strengthen the inclusion
of and focus on the needs of persons with disabilities in humanitarian programming
and response, and include accessibility and rehabilitation as essential components in
all aspects and stages of humanitarian response, inter alia, by strengthening
preparedness and disaster risk reduction;
(l) Encourage increased understanding, knowledge and the greatest social
awareness about persons with disabilities, inter alia, by developing and
implementing communication and social media campaigns by and in conjunction
with persons with disabilities and organizations of persons with disabilities, in
order to promote positive perceptions of persons with disabilities, and seek to
eliminate discriminatory social and attitudinal barriers so that they participate fully
in society;
(m) Strengthen national efforts, including with the appropriate support of
international cooperation, upon request, aimed at addressing the rights and needs of
women and children with disabilities and the realization of the internationally
agreed development goals and commitments related to gender equality and to the
rights of the child;
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