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intersecting forms of discrimination that affect persons with disabilities in the enjoyment of
their rights;
(g)
Working with media and other stakeholders to encourage the positive portrayal
of persons with disabilities in a manner consistent with the purpose of the Convention and to
modify harmful views of persons with disabilities, including through the production of
disability-sensitive content that promotes diversity and combats disability-based
discrimination;
(h)
Refraining from supporting, through funding or as part of public-private
partnerships, campaigns that perpetuate stigmatization or stereotyping;
(i)
Ensuring that media regulatory and monitoring bodies have clear mandates to
establish and encourage mandatory accessibility standards that allow persons with disabilities
to access media content and digital environments on an equal basis with others;
(j)
Ensuring the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in the
design and implementation of awareness-raising programmes and media-related legislation
and regulations, including institutional frameworks;
(k)
Conducting, promoting and funding research and data collection, and
monitoring the evolution of attitudes towards persons with disabilities;
5.
Calls upon States to take effective and appropriate habilitation and
rehabilitation measures that are person-centred and age- and gender-responsive, and address
multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination to enable persons with disabilities to attain
and maintain maximum independence, full physical, mental, social and vocational ability,
and full inclusion and participation in all aspects of life, such as by:
(a)
Establishing and strengthening policy and legal frameworks and other
measures that provide for comprehensive, high-quality habilitation and rehabilitation
services that are voluntary and guarantee equal access for persons with disabilities, while
promoting a rights-based and participatory approach to rehabilitation;
(b)
Developing and strengthening coordination mechanisms for a comprehensive
approach between State agencies in implementing high-quality habilitation and rehabilitation
services, given their cross-sectoral nature, including agencies working in the fields of public
health, social protection, employment and education;
(c)
Promoting and developing a multidisciplinary and trained habilitation and
rehabilitation workforce, including by requiring and providing initial and continuing training
that takes a human rights-based approach to disability and promotes the availability,
knowledge and use of assistive devices and technologies;
(d)
Developing and ensuring adequate resources for funding mechanisms to
provide equitable and adequate access to habilitation and rehabilitation services through a
combination of evidenced-based solutions, such as public funding, health insurance, social
insurance, public-private partnerships for service provision, and the reallocation and
redistribution of existing resources;
(e)
Raising the awareness of public officials and other professionals and staff
working in habilitation and rehabilitation services of the rights of persons with disabilities
through immediate, effective and appropriate measures, with all campaigns focusing on a
human rights-based approach to disability and not framing persons with disabilities as
patients or objects of charity and care;
(f)
Strengthening habilitation- and rehabilitation-related research and the
collection of data, disaggregated by people’s habilitation and rehabilitation requirements,
types and quality of habilitation and rehabilitation services provided, sex, age and disability,
especially in the priority areas identified by the World Health Organization, with systematic
dissemination of the results to support the development and provision of services;
6.
Urges States to take all appropriate measures, including through awarenessraising campaigns, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls with
disabilities, stereotypes and other harmful stigma based on gender and disability, and to
promote gender equality in order to ensure the equal enjoyment by women and girls of their
rights;
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