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28.
In accordance with the mandate, the Special Rapporteur will cooperate closely with
the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the Commission for Social Development by exchanging regularly and
participating in their annual sessions upon request. She appreciates the first exchange she
had with the Commission at its fifty-third session, in February 2015, and looks forward to
continuing to bring to these platforms updates on her work and findings from country visits
and on thematic issues.
29.
The Special Rapporteur will join the disability community in advocating for
disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction ahead of the third World Conference on Disaster
Risk Reduction, to be held in March 2015, and engage in the process leading to the World
Humanitarian Summit in 2016 in the light of article 11 of the Convention, which calls for
measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of
risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence
of natural disasters. She will also engage in efforts to ensure that the rights of women and
girls with disabilities are adequately reflected in the process of the 20-year review of the
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and its outcome.
30.
As invited by the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur envisages to support
the United Nations system, and in particular the Statistical Commission, as appropriate and
within the scope of the mandate and existing resources, to update existing methodologies of
disability data collection and analysis for persons with disabilities, to obtain internationally
comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilities and to regularly include
relevant disability data or relevant qualitative facts, as appropriate, in relevant United
Nations publications in the field of economic and social development.15
31.
The Special Rapporteur will liaise closely with United Nations agencies, funds and
programmes working in the area of disability, and welcomes the exchange of information
and mutual sharing of findings and developments. In accordance with her mandate, she
envisages to work closely with the United Nations Partnership to Promote the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities with a view to seeking collaboration. The Special Rapporteur will
also exchange with the Inter-Agency Support Group on the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities in recognition of the institutional mandate to promote the rights of
persons with disabilities of the Group and each of its members.
32.
The Special Rapporteur believes that regional bodies play an important role in
interpreting international standards at the regional level and advancing the rights of persons
with disabilities within relevant cultural and economic regional contexts. In this light, she
will be available to provide advice upon request, taking into account the work plans and
priorities of regional organizations in processes involving the promotion and protection of
the rights of persons with disabilities.
VI. Areas of concern and priority issues for the mandate
33.
Given the broad scope of the mandate and the fact that it is subject to the availability
of resources for its implementation, the Special Rapporteur has decided to mainly focus on
a few priority areas of concern, which in her view present the most urgent challenges for
the enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities. These areas of concern have
been grouped into three complementary, mutually reinforcing clusters:
(a)
Promoting citizenship. Supporting the active participation of persons with
disabilities in all decision-making process affecting their lives, including through the right
15
General Assembly resolution 69/142, para. 18.
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