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7.
Calls upon States to engage in international cooperation efforts at all levels
aimed at enhancing their national capacities to raise awareness about persons with
disabilities, to provide habilitation and rehabilitation services and to encourage the
mobilization of public and private resources on a sustainable basis to mainstream the rights
of persons with disabilities in development, and invites the Office of the High Commissioner
and relevant United Nations agencies, and other donor mechanisms and partnerships to
consider ways to foster international cooperation activities in that regard, in close
consultation with persons with disabilities and their representative organizations;
8.
Encourages States to integrate in their reports to the high-level political forum
on sustainable development the advances made with regard to the rights of persons with
disabilities as reflected in laws, policies and practices developed relevant to the commitments
under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and to develop human rights indicators
and collect data disaggregated by age, sex and disability to inform those indicators using the
Washington Group on Disability Statistics short set of questions for disaggregation;
9.
Calls upon States to ensure that all international cooperation is inclusive of
persons with disabilities and does not contribute to creating new barriers for them;
10.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to present an oral report to the
Human Rights Council on the implementation of the United Nations Disability Inclusion
Strategy across its programmes and operations at its forty-seventh and fiftieth sessions, and
also requests the Office to make its report to the Secretary-General on the Strategy publicly
available in an easy-to-read version and in an accessible format;
11.
Decides that its next annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with
disabilities will be held at its forty-sixth session and will focus on participation in sport under
article 30 of the Convention, and will have international sign interpretation and captioning;
12.
Also decides that an interactive debate on the rights of persons with disabilities
will be held at its forty-ninth session and will focus on article 31 of the Convention, on
statistics and data collection, and will have international sign interpretation and captioning;
13.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare its next annual
thematic study on the rights of persons with disabilities on participation in sport under article
30 of the Convention, and to prepare its subsequent study on statistics and data collection
under article 31 of the Convention, in consultation with States and other relevant
stakeholders, regional organizations, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with
disabilities, civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities,
and national human rights institutions, requiring contributions to be submitted in an
accessible format, and requests that such stakeholder contributions, the studies themselves
and an easy-to-read-version of them be made available on the website of the Office of the
High Commissioner, in an accessible format, prior to the forty-sixth session of the Human
Rights Council;
14.
Encourages the task force on secretariat services and accessibility for persons
with disabilities to report orally to the Human Rights Council on its work and on the progress
made in the implementation of its accessibility plan;
15.
Urges States to consider further integrating and mainstreaming the perspective
and rights of persons with disabilities into the work of the Human Rights Council;
16.
Encourages representative organizations of persons with disabilities, civil
society, national mechanisms as described in article 33 of the Convention, and national
human rights institutions to participate actively in the debates referred to in paragraphs 11
and 12 above and in regular and special sessions of the Human Rights Council and its
working groups;
17.
Requests the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner and United Nations
offices to continue to work collaboratively on the progressive implementation of standards
and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and services of the United Nations system,
taking into account relevant provisions of the Convention, and underlines that the Human
Rights Council, including its Internet resources, should be fully accessible to persons with
disabilities;
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