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E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/L.12

Human rights and disability : draft resolution / Mr. Al-Hajjé.

UN Document Symbol E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/L.12
Convention Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Document Type Draft Resolution
Session 46th
Type Document
Description

3 p.

Subjects Persons with Disabilities, Disability

Extracted Text

UNITED NATIONS
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Economic and Social
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E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/L.12
16 August 1994
Original: ENGLISH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sub-Commission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection
of Minorities
Forty-sixth session
Agenda item 17 (b)
PROMOTION, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT NATIONAL,
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS: HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISABILITY
Mr. El-Hajjé: draft resolution
Human rights and disability
The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities,
Recalling its resolution 1993/22 of 20 August 1993 and the reference
therein to the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the
World Conference on Human Rights, which reaffirm that persons with
disabilities should be guaranteed equal opportunity through the elimination of
all barriers, be they physical, financial, social or psychological, which
exclude or restrict full participation in society,
Noting the report prepared by the Secretary-General
(E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/35) pursuant to the request of the Sub-Commission in
resolution 1993/22 for information on the coordination endeavours, and their
results, undertaken by the various United Nations organs and bodies concerned
with the protection of disabled persons and the discussion in that report of
GE.94-13670 (E)
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monitoring work expected to be undertaken by both the new special rapporteur
and the Commission for Social Development, regarding the Standard Rules on the
Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (General Assembly
resolution 48/96, annex),
Noting also that the Commission on Human Rights, in its
resolution 1994/27 of 4 March 1994, reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that
the rights of persons with disabilities and their concern for full
participation in community affairs continue to be addressed in all of its
work,
Recognizing that the Standard Rules do not contain legal clauses that
obligate States to respect pertinent provisions of the International Bill of
Human Rights and other human rights instruments, such as the Convention on the
Rights of the Child,
Mindful of the Sub-Commission’s continuing responsibility, under
Commission on Human Rights resolution 8 (XXIII) and Economic and Social
Council resolution 1235 (XLII), to study, each year, situations which reveal a
consistent pattern of violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms set
out in the International Bill of Human Rights and in pertinent United Nations
treaties,
Mindful also of the disturbing accuracy of Mr. Leandro Despouy’s
prediction in his report entitled Human Rights and Disabled Persons
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.92.XIV.4, para. 280) that, at the
conclusion of the Decade of Disabled Persons, those persons will find
themselves at a disadvantage in relation to other vulnerable groups such as
refugees, women and migrant workers,
1. Requests the Secretary-General to report in 1995 to the
Sub-Commission regarding coordination endeavours which affect disabled
persons, with emphasis on activities of the other United Nations organizations
and bodies that deal with alleged violations of the legal obligations of
States under the International Bill of Human Rights and United Nations
treaties that protect disabled persons;
2. Also requests the Secretary-General, in response to the concern of
the General Assembly expressed in resolution 48/99 of 20 December 1993
regarding the need to give higher priority and visibility to disability
issues, to help ensure, first, a wider distribution of Mr. Leandro Despouy’s
report entitled Human Rights and Disabled Persons (United Nations publication,
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Sales No. E.92.XIV.4) and, second, an expanded discussion of juridical aims
that might be achieved were there appropriate exercise of the Ombudsman
function briefly described in that report (para. 281 (b));
3. Decides to remain seized of the question and to consider it at its
forty-seventh session under the agenda item entitled "Review of further
developments in fields with which the Sub-Commission has been concerned".
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