A/HRC/43/41/Add.3 health and social care in order to integrate a rights-based approach and fully embrace the paradigm shift of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 79. The Special Rapporteur looks forward to a continued dialogue and collaboration with Norway on the implementation of her recommendations. She hopes that her visit and report will assist the country to continue advancing towards the establishment of a fully inclusive society. B. Recommendations Legal and policy framework 80. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled; (b) Withdraw its interpretative declarations on articles 12, 14 and 25 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and incorporate the treaty into domestic law; (c) Conduct a comprehensive review of the national normative framework to fully harmonize it with the Convention, including the Constitution, the Penal Code, the Termination of Pregnancy Act, the Sterilization Act, the Health and Care Service Act, the Patients’ and Users’ Rights Act, the Mental Health Care Act, the Guardianship Act, the Inheritance Act and the Dispute Act; (d) Consider establishing a governmental coordination mechanism with the responsibility of ensuring that all line ministries and authorities at county and municipal levels interpret and implement disability-related legislation and policies in line with the Convention, as required by its article 33 (1). That could be done through the nomination of disability and accessibility focal points at ministerial, county and municipal levels; (e) Ensure that all public policies, including disability-specific ones, include a human rights-based approach to disability; (f) Adopt as soon as possible the action plan 2020–25 for the strategy “A society for all” and ensure that it contains specific measures to implement the strategy at central, county and municipal levels, with time-bound benchmarks and accountability frameworks, along with the necessary budgetary and fiscal measures; (g) Increase the awareness, knowledge and capacity of government officials, civil servants, service providers and civil society to implement articles 4 (1) and 8 of the Convention and engage in wide-scale public awareness campaigns on the Convention and the rights-based approach to disability. Data collection 81. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Collect data and statistics on persons with disabilities aged less than 20 and over 67 and use existing data on the situation and living conditions of persons with disabilities to better inform public policies and their implementation; (b) Continue its efforts to develop better statistical tools and methods to obtain data disaggregated by disability status. 17

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