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8.
Calls upon States, in realizing the right to work for persons with disabilities,
to engage the private sector and, in this regard, urges the private sector to employ persons
with disabilities, to create a welcoming working environment and to identify and eliminate
barriers that hinder their access to the workplace on an equal basis with others;
9.
Urges States to consult closely with and actively involve persons with
disabilities and their representative organizations in designing, implementing, evaluating
and monitoring policies and programmes relating to the employment of persons with
disabilities;
10.
Encourages States and invites other relevant stakeholders,
monitoring mechanisms, to collect appropriate information, including
and gender-specific statistical and research data, to enable the
implementation of policies to improve the employment situation
disabilities;
including national
disability-specific
formulation and
of persons with
11.
Encourages States to create or strengthen relevant monitoring or complaint
mechanisms that, inter alia, promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the right to
work for persons with disabilities;
12.
Encourages all relevant actors in the design of products, environments,
programmes and services relating to work and employment to pay due attention to universal
design, which requires the consideration of the needs of all members of society in order to
avoid the need for any subsequent adaptation or specialized design;
13.
Acknowledges the importance of international cooperation at all levels and, in
this regard, encourages all relevant actors in taking measures of international cooperation to
consider appropriate and effective measures in support of national efforts to promote
employment opportunities for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others;
14.
Decides to continue to integrate the rights of persons with disabilities into its
work, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 7/9 of 27 March 2008;
15.
Also decides that its next annual interactive debate on the rights of persons
with disabilities will be held at its twenty-fifth session, and that it will focus on the right of
persons with disabilities to education;
16.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a study on the right
of persons with disabilities to education, in consultation with States and other relevant
stakeholders, including the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, regional organizations, the Special
Rapporteur on Disabilities of the Commission for Social Development, civil society
organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, and national human
rights institutions, and requests that the study be made available on the website of the
Office of the High Commissioner, in an accessible format, prior to the twenty-fifth session
of the Human Rights Council;
17.
Encourages organizations of persons with disabilities, national monitoring
bodies and human rights institutions to participate actively in the debate referred to in
paragraph 15 above, as well as in regular and special sessions of the Human Rights Council
and its working groups;
18.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the mandate of the
Office of the High Commissioner on the rights of persons with disabilities and the
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are adequately resourced for the
fulfilment of their tasks;
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