A/HRC/34/58 27. At the same time, there is a need to recover and acknowledge the personal experience of impairment that informs the support needs that persons with disabilities have in order to participate in society, experiences that may have been rendered marginal in the disability-rights debate. 10 The acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity should influence the way societies perceive and respond to individuals’ support requirements. 28. Against this background, States must move away from the assistentialist and medical approaches and rethink their policy and practice of care from a human rights perspective. The provision of access to support is essential for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. While the debates on political and social economy of care are receiving increasing attention from activists, researchers, States and international actors, they do not adequately address the rights of persons with disabilities. Discussions on care in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development must be inclusive of persons with disabilities and incorporate a human rights-based approach to disability. The enjoyment by all persons with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms should be at the centre of any model of support and assistance. IV. Support to persons with disabilities in international human rights law A. State obligation to ensure access to support 29. International human rights law requires States to provide persons with disabilities access to appropriate support to carry out daily activities and participate in society. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — the highest international standard on promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities — clearly stipulates the obligation of States to ensure access to a wide range of support services to persons with disabilities, and provides a comprehensive framework for its implementation. The Convention on the Rights of the Child also recognizes the obligation of States to ensure the assistance required by children with disabilities for achieving their fullest possible social integration and individual development (art. 23). 30. Regional human rights instruments have also recognized support to persons with disabilities. The European Social Charter (revised) enshrines the right of persons with disabilities to independence, social integration and participation in the life of the community, calling on States to facilitate access to technical aids and support services (art. 15). The Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador) establishes an obligation to adopt measures to assist persons with disabilities to achieve the greatest possible development of their personality, including the implementation of programmes specifically aimed at providing them with the resources and environment needed for attaining this goal (art. 18). While the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights establishes a general obligation to facilitate “special protection measures” for persons with disabilities (art. 18 (2) and (4)), the draft protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the rights of persons with disabilities adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in April 2016 explicitly recognizes support as a necessary measure to enable the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities (arts. 2 (h), 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 23, 25 and 26). Finally, the Incheon Strategy to “Make the Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific considers community inclusion and 10 8 Ibid.