A/HRC/34/69 realization obligations, support monitoring mechanisms, facilitate access to disaggregated data and develop human rights indicators. 79. International cooperation should aim at increasing disability-specific funding and promoting research. States and donors must mainstream disability throughout international cooperation and ensure the participation of persons with disabilities. Policies should be enforced at all levels, from headquarters to field-level agencies, to ensure implementation. Means of tracking inclusion, such as disability markers, should be implemented. Well-developed data-collection systems would allow for improved design and assessment of projects. International organizations should further engage in the promotion of the human rights of persons with disabilities. 80. The United Nations system should adequately consider the rights of persons with disabilities in all its work and increase internal coherence as well as cooperation with country teams to strengthen their capacity on the Convention and support States to implement policies that are inclusive of these persons and respectful of their rights. The United Nations system must increase its direct support to representative organizations of persons with disabilities, facilitating access to capacity-building and resources. 81. National human rights institutions needed to be independent and well resourced, and their complaint mechanisms needed strengthening. They should mainstream disability-related issues in their work, with focal points to support disability-specific issues. In particular, their engagement with parliament and the judiciary was crucial to ensure that legislation was compliant with the Convention, effective access to justice and remedies. They should increase efforts to provide technical support and capacity-building to organizations of persons with disabilities and to facilitate their dialogue with Governments and engagement with international human rights systems. 82. States and other stakeholders should develop a disability network on media, involving private and public media, persons with disabilities, communicators and representatives of the target audience, to contribute to the implementation of article 8 of the Convention. Such a network would aim at combating stereotypes; promoting appropriate language; portraying persons with disabilities as rights holders; ensuring access to information by implementing accessibility standards in all media, including on websites; increasing visibility and mainstreaming; and promoting journalists with disabilities devoted to non-disability-specific news. States should develop observatories and other mechanisms to monitor and report on media compliance with international standards and domestic laws. 83. The private sector must be involved in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in accordance with the Convention. Multi-stakeholder initiatives should develop guidelines, exchange good practices and promote actions including adopting the human rights-based approach to disability, mainstreaming persons with disabilities as consumers, implementing universal design, and expanding production and reducing costs of disability-specific products. Public procurement should contribute to the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities. Academic and research institutions must adopt a human rights-based approach to research. States, donors and those institutions should increase resources for research on how the rights of persons with disabilities could be applied to development and policymaking, particularly with regard to access to justice, data collection and multiple forms of discrimination. 84. The Human Rights Council and other United Nations human rights machinery must remain seized of the matter. In particular, the Council should disseminate the 20

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