A/HRC/4/75 page 3 Introduction 1. By its resolution 2005/65, the Commission on Human Rights requested the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to report to the Commission at its sixty-second session on progress in the implementation of the recommendations contained in the study on human rights and disability and on the achievement of the objectives set forth in the programme of work of the Office in relation to the human rights of persons with disabilities. In its decision 2/102, the Human Rights Council decided to request the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Commissioner to continue with the fulfilment of their activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies. The present report is submitted in response to these requests. 2. The 2002 OHCHR study on “Human rights and disability: the current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability” (the study), focused on the work carried out by the (then) six core United Nations human rights treaty bodies to advance the equal effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities. The study concluded that, despite their considerable potential, the United Nations human rights treaties had not been fully used in the context of disability. In order to enhance the future use of the existing human rights treaties and mechanisms, the study addressed a wide range of recommendations to States parties, treaty bodies, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights, national human rights institutions and civil society.1 3. In the context of its recommendations, the study considered the possible drafting of a new convention on human rights and disability. The study concluded by noting that such a convention “would mark a huge step forward and should not undermine but underpin the protections provided in the existing six human rights treaties”. In 2001, the General Assembly established an Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability (the Ad Hoc Committee) which met for eight sessions and submitted a draft text to the General Assembly for action. On 13 December 2006, the General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Convention”) and its Optional Protocol, as contained in its resolution 61/106 (see A/61/611, annex). 4. Given the importance of this new development, including in relation to the implementation of the recommendations of the study, the present report seeks to provide information to the Human Rights Council on the new Convention. Consequently, the report is divided into three sections. The first section provides an update on OHCHR activities during 2006 in relation to human rights and disabilities. The second section provides a detailed 1 G. Quinn and T. Degener, “Human rights and disability: the current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability”, HR/PUB/02/1, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2002.