Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol Thereto

A/RES/70/145View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72a Implementation of human rights instruments, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2009–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/RES/70/145	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto	1,024	21%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/160	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto	822	56%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/229	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto	795	53%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/154	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto	457	71%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/192	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto	489	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

5 reports · 2009–2017

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2017	A/72/227	Situation of women and girls with disabilities and the Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/145
2014	A/69/284	Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/67/160
2012	A/67/281	Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/229
2011	A/66/121	Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/154
2009	A/64/128	Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/192

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Anniversaries Children with Disabilities Conferences Development Indicators Human Rights Information Dissemination Persons with Disabilities Women

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities1 and the Optional Protocol thereto2 as a matter of priority;

Encourages States that have ratified the Convention and submitted one or more reservations to it to review regularly the effect and continued relevance of such reservations and to consider the possibility of withdrawing them;

Invites the Secretary-General to intensify efforts to assist States to become parties to the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto, bearing in mind that the upcoming tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention offers an opportunity to create new momentum towards its universalization, including by providing assistance with a view to achieving universal adherence;

Emphasizes the importance of mainstreaming disability issues as an integral part of relevant sustainable development strategies, and encourages States to apply a human rights-based approach and to intensify their efforts to advance the rights of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,8 consistent with their international obligations;

Notes that disability-specific indicators, which are sensitive to the measuring of existing inequality gaps within different population groups, can improve the identification of existing social, economic and political inequalities, and recalls that processes for the follow-up to and review of the 2030 Agenda at all levels will be, inter alia, based on data that is of high-quality, accessible, timely, reliable and disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migration status, disability and geographic location and other characteristics that are relevant within national contexts;

Requests United Nations agencies and organizations, and invites intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to continue to strengthen efforts undertaken to disseminate accessible and easy to understand information on the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto, including to children and young people to promote their understanding, and to assist States parties in implementing their obligations under those instruments;

Invites the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of persons with disabilities to address and engage in interactive dialogues with the General Assembly annually, under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”, as a way to enhance communication between the Assembly and the Committee;

Invites the President of the General Assembly to convene a high-level panel meeting late in 2016 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention, aimed at promoting its universalization;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session a report on the situation of women and girls with disabilities, in consultation with relevant United Nations agencies, including, inter alia, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), taking into account the views of relevant stakeholders and using existing available materials, and to include a segment on the status of the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto;

Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure that the Office of the High Commissioner has adequate resources for the fulfilment of its tasks with respect to its work on the rights of persons with disabilities.

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