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5.
Encourages States to undertake promptly a review of all legislation and other
measures so as to identify and modify or abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and
practices that constitute discrimination against persons with disabilities;
6.
Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to prohibit by law and
eliminate any form of discrimination on the basis of disability and to ensure equal and
effective legal protection to persons with disabilities from discrimination on all grounds;
7.
Encourages States to exchange information and experiences on legislative
measures and models that guarantee the human rights of persons with disabilities, on an
equal basis with others, including on measures for accessibility, reasonable
accommodation, equal recognition before the law, access to justice and supported decisionmaking;
8.
Calls upon States to take specific measures to give practical effect to the
principle of non-discrimination on the basis of disability and to the provision of reasonable
accommodation, including in the administrative, justice and education sectors and, where
appropriate, special measures to enhance the effective implementation of the Convention
and the Optional Protocol thereto;
9.
Encourages States to adopt or strengthen policies and programmes to
promote awareness of and increase expertise in the rights of persons with disabilities in all
branches of government, including through training programmes for public officials and
agents, taking into account multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination experienced by
persons with disabilities;
10.
Calls upon States to take measures to guarantee the enjoyment of political
rights of persons with disabilities and to promote actively an environment in which persons
with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in the conduct of public affairs, on an
equal basis with others, and to promote their participation in the formulation of policies and
programmes;
11.
Also calls upon States to monitor the effectiveness of steps taken to eliminate
discrimination on the basis of disability by any person, organization or enterprise in, inter
alia, the housing, transport, health, labour and education sectors and, in so doing, to develop
methodologies for ensuring compliance with the principles of non-discrimination and
accessibility, taking duly into account the need to consult closely with and actively involve
persons with disabilities and their representatives in such processes;
12.
Further calls upon States to ensure that persons with disabilities have
effective access to justice and to effective remedies and redress, on an equal basis with
others, including administrative and judicial remedies for persons with disabilities whose
enjoyment of human rights is denied;
13.
Encourages States, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to collect and
compile disaggregated data to measure national progress and to identify barriers that
prevent or undermine the full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of their human rights,
and to formulate appropriate steps to remove such barriers;
14.
Acknowledges the important role that national monitoring mechanisms,
including independent mechanisms such as national human rights institutions, play in
protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities;
15.
Decides to continue to integrate the rights of persons with disabilities into its
work, in accordance with its resolution 7/9;
16.
Also decides that its next annual interactive debate on the rights of persons
with disabilities will be held at its thirteenth session, and that it will focus on the structure
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