A/HRC/DEC/19/119 documentation processing capacity of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in particular its translating and editing capacity. 10. When preparing annual calendars in the future, measures aiming at avoiding backto-back sessions of the Human Rights Council and the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review should be taken. 11. Measures should be taken by the Secretariat to ensure the timely submission (Office of the High Commissioner), processing and publication (United Nations Office at Geneva) of Human Rights Council pre-session documents. In the event of delay, the Secretariat should, to the greatest extent possible, provide information on the expected date of public release of delayed documents. 12. The Office of the High Commissioner should post advance edited Human Rights Council pre-session documents on the website of the Office as early as possible, in order to facilitate their consideration by the Council or its working groups and other subsidiary bodies. 13. In exceptional circumstances, workload sharing should be considered by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management between various duty stations for the processing of documents, whenever the United Nations Office at Geneva does not have sufficient capacity to process all documents in a timely manner, ahead of Human Rights Council-related meetings. 14. The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management and the Fifth Committee are encouraged to take the measures necessary to meet the demands of sustainable webcast coverage of the sessions of the Human Rights Council and the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, including by strengthening the capacity of the Department of Public Information in Geneva. In future, webcast coverage of other Council meetings could be considered. V. Accessibility for persons with disabilities A. General remarks 15. According to paragraph 58 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21, there is a need to enhance accessibility for persons with disabilities to the Council and the work of its mechanisms, including its information and communication technology, Internet resources and documents, in accordance with international standards on accessibility for persons with disabilities. 16. Over the past two decades, the General Assembly has adopted a series of resolutions on persons with disabilities. In its resolution 65/186 of 21 December 2010, the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to continue to improve accessibility and full inclusion of persons with disabilities. In this context, an interdepartmental task force was established at Headquarters, under the chairmanship of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, to develop Secretariat-wide policies and standards to ensure the participation of persons with disabilities in the work of the United Nations. In the same vein, specialized agencies and programmes of the United Nations are also taking steps to improve accessibility to their work (including accessibility of information and communication technologies, physical facilities and human resources policies). 17. Since its creation, the Human Rights Council has requested, in its annual resolutions on persons with disabilities, that the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner continue the progressive implementation of standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and services of the United Nations system, also taking into account relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and underlined that 5

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