A/HRC/43/41/Add.3 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Visit to Norway Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities*, ** Summary The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas-Aguilar, visited Norway from 2 to 11 October 2019. In her report, she welcomes the country’s strong legal and policy frameworks, commitment and efforts to promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities in the light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, especially with regard to social protection, health care, education and international cooperation. She emphasizes the need to complete the legislative harmonization process to guarantee the right to full legal capacity of persons with disabilities and to amend provisions allowing the deprivation of liberty, compulsory treatment and use of coercion on the basis of disability. She recommends that the Government further strengthen its efforts to provide inclusive responses and solutions for persons with disabilities at the central, county and municipal levels. * The summary of the report is being circulated in all official languages. The report itself, which is annexed to the summary, is being circulated in the language of submission only. ** Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.20-00481(E) 