A/HRC/43/41/Add.3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–20 March 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Visit to Norway
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with
disabilities*, **
Summary
The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina
Devandas-Aguilar, visited Norway from 2 to 11 October 2019. In her report, she
welcomes the country’s strong legal and policy frameworks, commitment and efforts to
promote and protect the rights of persons with disabilities in the light of the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, especially with regard to social protection,
health care, education and international cooperation. She emphasizes the need to
complete the legislative harmonization process to guarantee the right to full legal
capacity of persons with disabilities and to amend provisions allowing the deprivation of
liberty, compulsory treatment and use of coercion on the basis of disability. She
recommends that the Government further strengthen its efforts to provide inclusive
responses and solutions for persons with disabilities at the central, county and municipal
levels.
* The summary of the report is being circulated in all official languages. The report itself, which is
annexed to the summary, is being circulated in the language of submission only.
** Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to
circumstances beyond the submitter’s control.
GE.20-00481(E)
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