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including the Millennium Development Goals, are inclusive of issues concerning
persons with disabilities and promote the equalization of opportunities for all by:
(a) Ensuring accessibility, also through reasonable accommodation to enable
persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of
life and to participate as agents and beneficiaries of development;
(b) Providing appropriate and accessible social services and safety nets for
persons with disabilities to ensure improved well-being for all;
(c) Ensuring an adequate standard of living and social protection for persons
with disabilities, including through access to poverty and hunger eradication
programmes, inclusive quality education, in particular free and compulsory primary
education and secondary education, as well as the same range, quality and standard
of free or affordable health care as provided to other persons, and the promotion of
full employment and decent work for all;
(d) Promoting and strengthening national capacities for participatory,
democratic and accountable processes and mechanisms that further the equalization
of opportunities for the full and effective participation of persons with disabilities in
civil and political, economic, social and cultural life;
Encourages States to collect and analyse appropriate information,
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including statistical and research data that are disaggregated by age and sex, on the
situation of persons with disabilities, bearing in mind appropriate protection of
personal data, for purposes of policy planning, analysis and evaluation that include
the perspective of persons with disabilities, and in this regard invites States to avail
themselves of the technical services of the Statistics Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat;
Urges relevant entities of the United Nations system, including agencies,
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funds and programmes, and invites international and regional development finance
institutions to take concrete measures to incorporate the perspective of persons with
disabilities, including accessibility requirements, in development cooperation and
development finance activities;
Reaffirms the role of the United Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability,
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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, the
Standard Rules and the Convention, including the work of the Special Rapporteur,
and to facilitate international cooperation, including building national capacities,
with emphasis on priorities for action identified in the present resolution;
10. Encourages all relevant parties to bear in mind the situation of persons
with disabilities in the United Nations system-wide coherence discussions, without
prejudice to the outcome of those discussions;
11. Calls upon States to include in country reports, in connection with the
forthcoming periodic reviews of progress in achieving the Millennium Development
Goals, a review and evaluation of the impact of development efforts on the rights,
well-being and livelihood of persons with disabilities;
12. Reaffirms its commitment to respect and promote, without discrimination,
the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities, and urges States to take effective
measures to continue to improve their economic and social conditions;
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