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13. Requests the Secretary-General to give higher priority to concerns and
issues of persons with disabilities and their inclusion within the work programme of
the United Nations system and within existing resources, and to strengthen the role
of the United Nations and its development programmes and agencies in
mainstreaming disability issues, taking into account the perspective of persons with
disabilities within the work of the United Nations system by:
(a) Promoting the inclusion of the perspective of persons with disabilities in
the policies, programmes and projects of the Secretariat and the other United
Nations bodies and agencies on a broader scale and with higher priority, on the basis
of a holistic approach in the work done in the fields of social development, human
rights and non-discrimination, and in this regard ensuring that the 2010 World
Programme on Population and Housing Censuses is inclusive of the perspective of
persons with disabilities;
(b) Further strengthening action in all countries and providing assistance to
developing countries, in particular to least developed countries, with special
attention to persons with disabilities in vulnerable circumstances;
(c) Assisting Member States in formulating comprehensive and coherent
policies and action plans, as well as projects, including pilot projects, that promote,
inter alia, international cooperation and technical assistance, particularly to enhance
the capacities of government agencies, as well as civil society, including
organizations of persons with disabilities, to implement programmes on disability;
14. Decides that the fifth review and appraisal of the World Programme of
Action, to be conducted by the General Assembly in 2008, shall direct special
attention to the issues raised in the present resolution;
15. Also decides to rename the International Day of Disabled Persons,
observed every year on 3 December, the International Day of Persons with
Disabilities;
16.
Requests the Secretary-General:
(a) To submit an analytical and policy-oriented report on the fifth review and
appraisal of the World Programme of Action to the General Assembly at its sixtythird session as a contribution to the forthcoming periodic reviews of the progress as
well as obstacles encountered in implementing the goals of the Millennium Summit,
particularly the Millennium Development Goals;
(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.
76th plenary meeting
18 December 2007
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