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(e)
Statistics and data-collection. With a view to promoting the inclusion of
persons with disabilities in national data-collection systems, and guided by article 31 of the
Convention, the Special Rapporteur will support efforts to collect adequately disaggregated
data and statistics to enable States to formulate and implement policies to give effect to the
Convention.
B.
Promoting the inclusion of the rights of persons with disabilities in
international processes
24.
While positive steps have been taken to include the rights of persons with
disabilities in a range of human rights and development processes at the international level,
the Special Rapporteur considers it important to contribute to these efforts by providing
technical advice and advocating for a human rights framing in all disability-related work.
25.
Guided by Human Rights Council resolution 26/20 and the call made in the
Convention for international cooperation that is inclusive of and accessible to persons with
disabilities, the Special Rapporteur will pay particular attention to promoting the role of
persons with disabilities as both agents for and beneficiaries of development, and make
recommendations thereon. In development cooperation efforts, she will, in particular, seek
to promote South-South and triangular cooperation that reinforces national ownership of
efforts. In addition, she will engage in the final stages of the process leading to the
establishment of a new international development agenda beyond 2015, joining other
stakeholders in advocating for the post-2015 period that is sustainable, inclusive and
accessible. The focus of the mandate holder will be on ensuring that achievements are
retained and that goals and targets are translated into meaningful and inclusive indicators,
and on developing efficient and inclusive implementation and monitoring frameworks for
the new agenda.
26.
The Special Rapporteur looks forward to working closely together with other special
procedures mandate holders and aims, as an initial step, to contact all mandate holders with
a call to harmonize efforts and build upon each other’s work. Attention will be paid to the
mandate’s call to address multiple and aggravated forms of discrimination by working in
close collaboration with other mandates focusing on groups, such as the mandate holders on
the rights of indigenous peoples, violence against women, the sale of children, the human
rights of migrants, minority issues and internally displaced persons, older persons and
discrimination against women in law and in pPractice. She also sees important connections
between her mandate and those focusing on specific economic and social rights, such as the
special procedures on the rights to health, education, extreme poverty, adequate housing,
water and sanitation, and to food, as well as those focusing on civil and political rights,
such as the Special Rapporteur on torture, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
27.
The Special Rapporteur attaches great importance to the work of United Nations
human rights treaty bodies and their jurisprudence. She sees a natural link between her
work and that of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and extends her
full support and availability to collaborate with the Committee whenever relevant for both
mechanisms in order to contribute to and build upon each other’s work in a way that
advances the rights of persons with disabilities in a coherent manner and maximizes the use
of available resources. The Special Rapporteur also wishes to contact other treaty bodies
with a view to sharing information gathered on thematic issues that might be of interest in
their respective area of work. She extends her support for collaborating for the
harmonization of standards and sharing of information that can be of relevance to the
respective bodies.
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