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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
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