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facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent,
inclusive and effective learning environments for all, and to ensure that all learners acquire
the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including through
human rights education, the promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global
citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of the contribution of culture to
sustainable development;
26.
Urges States to promote accessibility by children with disabilities to school
buildings, and to roads and transportation leading to schools, including by identifying and
eliminating existing obstacles and barriers, to undertake or promote research and
development of universally designed facilities and school environments, which should
require the minimum possible adaptation and the least cost to meet the specific needs of a
child with disabilities and should not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of
persons with disabilities where needed, and to promote the availability and use of such
services, facilities and environments;
27.
Also urges States to take effective measures, including through peer support,
to provide habilitation and rehabilitation services within the education system, as
appropriate, including health, occupational, physical, social counselling and other services;
28.
Calls upon States to realize their obligation to ensure that children with
disabilities have equal access with other children to participation in play, recreation and
leisure and sporting activities, including those activities in the school system;
29.
Also calls upon States to promote partnerships with teachers’, students’ and
parents’ associations, organizations of children with disabilities, sports organizations and
other school support groups, and the involvement of children with disabilities, in
accordance with their age and maturity, of parents, of caregivers and of the community,
including, as appropriate, in all aspects of planning, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of inclusive education policies;
30.
Further calls upon States to support national efforts to advance inclusive,
quality education through international, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, including
international development programmes, by facilitating capacity-building and the exchange
and sharing of information, experiences, training programmes and best practices, as well as
research and access to scientific and technical knowledge, including by promoting the
availability, knowledge and use of appropriate, suitable, affordable, accessible and
inclusive assistive devices and technologies;
31.
Urges States to take steps to adopt inclusive strategies for comprehensive
school safety and security in emergencies, including with respect to disaster risk reduction,
that are sensitive to learners with disabilities, in order to address the disproportionate
impact of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural and human-made hazards
on the right to education, including for children with disabilities who are displaced or
compelled to migrate due to such situations;
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32.
Encourages the special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the
Human Rights Council to continue to integrate a child rights perspective while
implementing their mandates, and to include in their reports information, qualitative
analysis and recommendations on the rights of the child, paying particular attention to the
rights of children with disabilities;
33.
Invites all human rights treaty bodies to continue to integrate the rights of the
child into their work, in particular in their concluding observations, general comments and
recommendations, paying attention to the protection of children from discrimination on the
basis of disability;
34.
Decides to continue its consideration of the question of the rights of the child
in accordance with its programme of work and its resolutions 7/29 of 28 March 2008 and
19/37 of 23 March 2012, and to focus its next annual full-day meeting on the theme
“Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment”, and requests the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report thereon, in close
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