Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Sec retary-General on the implementation of its resolution
42/5938 and of the relevant recommendations contained therein made by the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control at its tenth session, during which, inter alia, it re viewed the results of the interregional preparatory meet ings for the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Pre vention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders and endorsed their recommendations;
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Invitesthe Economic and Social Council, at its first regular session of 1989, to give priority attention to the recommendations of the Committee regarding, in particu lar, the implementation of the resolutions of the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, the review of the functioning and programme of work in the feld of crime prevention and criminal justice and the preparations for the Eighth Congress;
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Welcomes the efforts made by Member States and the Secretary-General to translate into action the recom mendations contained in the Milan Plan of Action,
adopted by the Seventh Congress, and urges those Gov ernments which have not yet done so to provide relevant information to the Secretary-General on the implementa tion of those recommendations;
(ii) Visually impaired, including access to Braille material, audio aids and large print information;
(iii) Mentally impaired, including access to easy reading materials;
(iv) Speech impaired, including access to new technologies;
(h) To formulate and implement disability related projects for inclu sion in technical co-operation programmes financed by the United Na tions Development Programme through the country programmes funded by the indicative planning fgures;
(,) To review and extend services and benefts available to disabled persons and their families, aimed at ensuring basic level income mainte nance and promoting self directed personal assistance, housing, trans port and other facilities needed for independent living;
(j) To train personnel, including disabled persons, to build a national capability to deal with disability;
(k) To establish machinery for appropriate data collection on disabilities, to be used in national planning;
([) To use indigenous raw materials, scientific expertise and produc tion facilities for the manufacture and local repair of appropriate techni cal aids and appliances needed by disabled persons;
(m) To accede to and implement the provisions of the Protocol34 to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientifc and Cul tural Materials,35 adopted at Nairobi on 26 November 1976 by the Gen eral Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul tural Organization at its nineteenth session, concerning the duty free international movement of equipment and material needed to assist the daily living of disabled persons;
(n) To ratify, if they have not yet done so, the Convention concern ing Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)
adopted in 1983 by the International Labour Conference;36
(o) To support research into the special needs of disabled persons and into programmes to benefit them and their families;
(p) To develop services and facilities to promote the rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities of disabled women, elderly disabled persons, mentally ill and other mentally impaired persons, multiple dis abled persons, disabled refugees and disabled migrants.
Intergovernmental organizations are urged to give priority to is sues concerning disabled persons and to take initiatives to implement the World Programme of Action.
Non-governmental organizations, which play an important role in the implementation of the World Programme of Action, are urged dur ing the remainder of the Decade:
(a) To establish regular and systematic contacts with the United Na tions system and other non governmental organizations in collecting and disseminating information and research findings, planning activities and
sharing innovative experiences and in maximizing the use of available re sources;
(b) To mobilize their networks and resources to publicize the aims and objectives of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons;
(c) To provide regular information on their activities and meetings to the Disabled Persons Unit of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat and actively to support its activi ties.
34 See United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1259, No. 20669.
35 The Agreement was adopted at Florence by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its fifth session and signed in New York •.m 22 November 1950. See 37 See Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 131, No. 1734.
the Treatment of Offenders, Milan, 26 Augusr-6 September 1985: report 36 International Labour Office, Official Bulletin, vol. LXVI, 1983,
prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. Series A, No. 2, convention No. 159 E.86.IV l).
39 See CEDAW/SP/14.
40 Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality,
Development and Peace, Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV. IO), chap. I, sect. A.
41 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-third Session, 38 A/43/572.
