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A/C.3/50/L.12/Rev.1
8 November 1995
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Fiftieth session
THIRD COMMITTEE
Agenda item 105
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE WORLD
SOCIAL SITUATION AND TO YOUTH, AGEING, DISABLED PERSONS AND
THE FAMILY
Armenia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica,
Denmark, Guinea, Kenya, Malta, Monaco, Mongolia,
Morocco, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Turkey and
Zaire: revised draft resolution
Towards full integration of persons with disabilities in society:
implementation of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of
Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities and of the Long-term
Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities,
Recalling also its resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982, by which it adopted
the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, 1/
Recalling further all its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 37/53
of 3 December 1982, 46/96 of 16 December 1991, 47/88 of 16 December 1992, 48/95
and 48/99 of 20 December 1993 and 49/153 of 23 December 1994,
1/ A/37/351/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation 1 (IV).
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Noting resolution 34/2 of 20 April 1995 of the Commission for Social
Development, 2/ wherein it is stated, inter alia, that the Rules are to be
monitored within the framework of the sessions of the Commission, and that the
purpose of such monitoring is to further their effective implementation,
Noting with interest the initiative taken by non-governmental organizations
to develop a disability index based on the United Nations Standard Rules on the
Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, as well as other
activities related to the Standard Rules, and activities in support of the World
Programme of Action,
Welcoming the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social
Development on monitoring the implementation of the Standard Rules and his
recommendation that in the coming two years the focus should be mainly on
legislation, coordination of work, organizations of persons with disabilities,
accessibility, education and employment, 3/
Welcoming the unreserved reaffirmation in the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on
25 June 1993, 4/ of all the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons
with disabilities, and the recognition in the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development, 5/ and the Programme of
Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 6/ of a pressing need, among
others, for the realization of the goals of full participation in society and
the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities, as well as the
recognition by the Fourth World Conference on Women, held at Beijing from 4 to
15 September 1995, of the special needs of women with disabilities,
1. Recalls the recognition by the World Summit for Social Development of
the need to promote the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for
Persons with Disabilities;
2. Urges all Governments and organizations to continue to strengthen
their efforts to implement the Standard Rules by appropriate legal,
administrative and all other measures, taking into account the integrated social
2/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995,
Supplement No. 4 (E/1995/24), chap. I, sect. E.
3/ See A/50/374, annex.
4/ Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna,
14-25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24 (Part I)), chap. III.
5/ Report of the International Conference on Population and Development,
Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.8),
chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
6/ See Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen,
6-12 March 1995 (A/CONF.166/9), chap. I.
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development strategy set out in the Programme of Action of the World Summit for
Social Development;
3. Encourages Governments of Member States to respond to the
questionnaire sent by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social
Development;
4. Encourages Member States to make voluntary contributions to the
Disability Fund to support initiatives on disability, including the important
work of the Special Rapporteur;
5. Calls upon Governments, when implementing the World Programme of
Action concerning Disabled Persons, to take into account the elements suggested
in the Long-term Strategy to Implement the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons to the Year 2000 and Beyond;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure appropriate support for the
effective functioning of the Long-term Strategy;
7. Encourages the use of communications networks for the dissemination to
civil society of the Standard Rules, the World Programme of Action and the Longterm
Strategy;
8. Encourages the Secretary-General and the United Nations organizations
concerned, particularly the United Nations Development Programme, to continue
their efforts to finalize, in consultation with Member States, the development
of global disability indicators, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a
report on this question to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session.
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