Towards Full Integration of Persons with Disabilities in Society: Implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities and of the Long-Term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond, G.A. res. 50/144, U.N. Doc. A/RES/50/144 (1995)




      The General Assembly,
 
      Recalling its resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted
the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities,
 
      Recalling also its resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it
adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons,
 
      Recalling further all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions
37/53 of 3 December 1982, 46/96 of 16 December 1991, 47/88 of 16 December
1992, 48/95 and 48/99 of 20 December 1993 and 49/153 of 23 December 1994,
 
      Taking note of resolution 34/2 of 20 April 1995 of the Commission for
Social Development, wherein it is stated, inter alia, that the Standard Rules
are to be monitored within the framework of the sessions of the Commission,
and that the purpose of such monitoring is to further their effective
implementation,
 
      Noting with interest the initiative taken by non-governmental
organizations to develop a disability index based on the Standard Rules, as
well as other activities related to the Standard Rules and activities in
support of the World Programme of Action,
 
      Welcoming the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for
Social Development on monitoring the implementation of the Standard Rules and
his recommendation that, in the coming two years, the focus should be mainly
on legislation, coordination of work, organizations of persons with
disabilities, accessibility, education and employment,
 
      Welcoming also the unreserved reaffirmation in the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25
June 1993, of all the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons with
disabilities, and the recognition in both the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development and the Programme of
Action of the World Summit for Social Development of a pressing need, among
others, for the realization of the goals of full participation in society and
the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities, as well as
the recognition by the Fourth World Conference on Women, held at Beijing from
4 to 15 September 1995, of the special needs of women with disabilities,
 
      1.    Recalls the recognition by the World Summit for Social Development
of the need to promote the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities
for Persons with Disabilities;
 
      2.    Urges all Governments and organizations to continue to strengthen
their efforts to implement the Standard Rules by appropriate legal,
administrative and other measures, taking into account the integrated social
development strategy set out in the Programme of Action of the World Summit
for Social Development;
 
      3.    Encourages Governments of Member States to respond to the
questionnaire sent by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social
Development;
 
      4.    Encourages Member States to make contributions to the United
Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability to support initiatives on disability,
including the important work of the Special Rapporteur;
 
      5.    Calls upon Governments, when implementing the World Programme of
Action concerning Disabled Persons, to take into account the elements
suggested in the Long-term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action
concerning Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond;
 
      6.    Requests the Secretary-General to ensure appropriate support for
the effective functioning of the Long-term Strategy;
 
      7.    Encourages the use of communications networks for the
dissemination to the general public of the Standard Rules, the World Programme
of Action and the Long-term Strategy;
 
      8.    Encourages the Secretary-General, the Department for Policy
Coordination and Sustainable Development of the Secretariat and the United
Nations organizations concerned, particularly the United Nations Development
Programme, to continue their efforts to facilitate the collection and
transmission of relevant data to be used to finalize, in consultation with
Member States, the development of global disability indicators, and requests
the Secretary-General to submit a report on this question to the General
Assembly at its fifty-second session.
      

 

 



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