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7.
In September 2015, together with the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, she
convened an expert meeting on persons deprived of their liberty because of their disability.
The meeting provided an overview of existing forms of arbitrary detention on the basis of
actual or perceived disability, while reaffirming the absolute prohibition of these practices.
Experts acknowledged the need to find new alternatives to existing practices that would be
respectful of the human dignity and integrity of persons with disabilities.
8.
On 27 October 2015, she presented her annual report (A/70/297) to the General
Assembly, on the right of persons with disabilities to social protection. In order to prepare
the report she undertook extensive consultations on the subject, including by means of
various expert meetings. The report was made available in accessible formats. In addition,
she met with the Secretary-General to discuss how to better include persons with
disabilities within the United Nations system. Also in October, she attended the annual
meetings of the World Bank in Lima and participated in several related events.
9.
To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which was on 3 December
2015, the Special Rapporteur, together with other United Nations experts, United Nations
agencies and disability advocacy organizations, organized several awareness-raising
activities in Geneva.
10.
Since her appointment, the Special Rapporteur has established contacts with other
special procedure mandate holders and United Nations human rights mechanisms to
coordinate action and to encourage them to include a disability perspective in their work.
This collaboration has taken place with the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on
Disability and Accessibility, the United Nations Partnership to Promote the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the
Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, the
Special Rapporteur on the right to health, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of
indigenous peoples, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older
persons, the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with
albinism, and the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and
in practice.
11.
She has also held consultations with other stakeholders, including the Victim
Assistance Committee of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, the
International Committee of the Red Cross, representatives of national human rights
institutions, numerous persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, other
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academics and ambassadors.
C.
Communications
12.
Summaries of communications sent and replies received during the period covered
by the present report are available in the communications reports of special procedures (see
A/HRC/29/50 and A/HRC/30/27).
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