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reform national emergency response plans and protocols, making them inclusive of, and
accessible to, persons with disabilities in their design and implementation. 3 These reforms
should include persons with disabilities in evacuation plans4 and ensure the necessary
budget allocations.5 Importantly, States parties are required to mainstream disability in their
migration and refugee policies6 and in all humanitarian aid channels.7 Furthermore, the
Committee has underscored the duty of States to ensure the participation of organizations of
persons with disabilities in these measures, with due consideration accorded to their input
and recommendations, including in setting priorities for aid distribution.8
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The Committee has urged that the safety of all children with disabilities in conflictaffected areas be ensured and prioritized, in particular of those living in institutions. 9 It has
also urged the systematic registration of internally displaced persons with disabilities,10 and
called for their situation as well as of those in refugee camps to be monitored, with the
purpose of ensuring an adequate standard of living. 11 In addition, it has stated that the
administrative detention of persons with disabilities in migration and asylum-seeking
contexts is not consistent with the Convention when it is applied without the provision of
adequate support and reasonable accommodation. 12
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The Committee has highlighted the duty to ensure that all emergency-related
information be made available in formats accessible to persons with different types of
impairments,13 including to deaf persons through sign language, and in the various
languages spoken in its territory, including those used by indigenous peoples.14 It has also
required disability-awareness training for all civil defence staff, rescue and emergency
personnel, and for all potential actors involved in humanitarian emergencies. 15
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In its statement following the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that struck
Chile on 27 February 2010, the Committee identified some of the additional barriers that
contributed to the disproportionate adverse impact of humanitarian emergencies on persons
with disabilities. In its statement on disability inclusion in the Third World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction and Beyond, the Committee called upon all States parties, the
United Nations and all agencies in the United Nations system and the international
community to, inter alia, ensure disability inclusion in the final outcome of the Conference
leading to true disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction. The Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 adopted at the Conference,16 contained important
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See for example CRPD/C/PRY/CO/1, para. 28;CRPD/C/AZE/CO/1, para. 25; CRPD/C/KOR/CO/1,
para. 20; CRPD/C/DEU/CO/1, para. 24;CRPD/C/UKR/CO/1, para. 23;CRPD/C/QAT/CO/1, para. 22;
CRPD/C/KEN/CO/1, para. 22 (a);CRPD/C/AUS/CO/1, para. 23; and CRPD/C/CZE/CO/1, para. 21.
See CRPD/C/UKR/CO/1, para. 23.
See CRPD/C/COK/CO/1, para. 22.
See CRPD/C/EU/CO/1, para. 35.
See CRPD/C/UKR/CO/1, para. 23.
See CRPD/C/UKR/CO/1, para. 23.
Ibid., para. 14.
Ibid., para. 25.
See CRPD/C/KEN/CO/1, para. 22 (c).
See CRPD/C/EU/CO/1, paras. 34–35.
See CRPD/C/SLV/CO/1, para. 26; CRPD/C/DEN/CO/1, para. 31; CRPD/C/MEX/CO/1, para 22(b);
CRPD/C/GAB/CO/1, para. 27.
See CRPD/C/TKM/CO/1, para. 24;CRPD/C/MNG/CO/1, para. 20;CRPD/C/DEU/CO/1, para. 24;
CRPD/C/DOM/CO/1, para. 19; CRPD/C/COK/CO/1, para. 22; CRPD/C/MEX/CO/1, para. 22 (a);
and CRPD/C/KEN/CO/1, para. 22 (b).
See CRPD/C/AZE/CO/1, para. 25; CRPD/C/MEX/CO/1, para. 22(c); and CRPD/C/DEN/CO/1, para.
31.
See A/CONF.224/6, chap. I.
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