A/HRC/28/58 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. 13

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