A/HRC/13/19 disabilities, who constitute a substantial percentage of the world’s poor people. In its opinion, MDG-related efforts should fully respect the human rights of persons with disabilities, as well as other excluded and discriminated groups. Further, the MDG framework should fully embrace non-discrimination and encourage active involvement of the affected parties and other key principles of the human rights based approach. It stated that such an inclusive MDG process was recognized by the United Nations by the adoption of resolution A/C.3/64/L.5/Rev.1 during the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, which called for the implementation of the MDG framework with respect to persons with disabilities and in line with the Convention. The Forum was of the view that if international cooperation efforts, including development cooperation, emergency and humanitarian actions, were not pursued in accordance with relevant human rights standards and were not systematically monitored from a human rights perspective, they would too often fail to improve and could even further deteriorate the rights of the groups in society most commonly faced with discrimination. It also noted that international cooperation needed to increase the capacity of persons with disabilities and other groups at high risk of exclusion by supporting the establishment of organizations representing these groups and involving them in all international cooperation related actions, as per clear guidance given by article 32 of the Convention. The Forum suggested a concrete proposal for action to the Human Rights Council, namely, that the latter asks its Advisory Committee to produce a declaration on how to ensure mainstreaming of international cooperation to respect the human rights-based approach, as well as to prepare proposals on how to facilitate exchange of experiences in the area of international cooperation in the field of human rights. It stated that the United Nations Statement of Common Understanding on the human rights-based approach to development cooperation and programming, which was adopted by the United Nations Development Group in 2003, could serve as inspiration for such a declaration. It also suggested that the Human Rights Council should ensure that the 2010 review conference on the MDGs strengthened the human rights-based approach to the MDGs, including attention to the rights of persons with disabilities. GE.10-10005 15