UN Human Rights Treaties

United Nations E/CN.5/2004/L.6
Economic and Social Council Distr.: Limited
11 February 2004
Original: English
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Commission for Social Development
Forty-second session
4-13 February 2004
Agenda item 3 (b) (ii)
Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development
and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly:
review of relevant United Nations plans and programmes
of action pertaining to the situation of social groups:
equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities
Draft resolution submitted by the Chairperson on the basis of
informal consultations
Further promotion of equalization of opportunities by, for and
with persons with disabilities, and protection of the human rights
of persons with disabilities
The Commission for Social Development recommends to the Economic and
Social Council the adoption of the following draft resolution:
“The Economic and Social Council,
“Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations and reaffirming the obligations contained in relevant human rights
instruments,
“Recalling also General Assembly resolutions 37/52 of 3 December
1982, by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons, 48/96 of 20 December 1993, by which it adopted the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities, and 56/115 of 19 December 2001,
“Recalling further General Assembly resolutions 56/168 of 19 December
2001, by which it established the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and
Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights
and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, 57/229 of 18 December 2002, in
which it sought views on proposals for a convention, and 58/246 of 26
November 2003, by which it decided that the Ad Hoc Committee will start the
negotiations on a draft convention at its third session,

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“Recalling its resolution 2002/26 of 24 July 2002 on further promotion of
the equalization of opportunities by, for and with persons with disabilities and
protection of their human rights and Commission on Human Rights resolution
2003/49 of 23 April 20031 on the human rights of persons with disabilities,
and other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Economic and
Social Council and its functional commissions,
“1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the views of
Governments on the proposals contained in the report of the former Special
Rapporteur on Disability, especially on the suggested supplement to the
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities,2 as well as the views expressed during the forty-second session of
the Commission for Social Development;
“2. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on Disability of the
Commission for Social Development undertaken in accordance with section IV
of the Standard Rules;
“3. Recommends to the General Assembly that it consider, at its fiftyninth
session, the suggested supplement to the Standard Rules on the
Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities contained in the
report of the Secretary-General,3 with a view to adopting a supplement to the
Standard Rules;
“4. Invites the Special Rapporteur on Disability to contribute to the
consideration of the suggested supplement by providing her views on possible
elements reflecting new developments and requests the Secretary-General to
make her views available to all Member States and observer States;
“5. Requests the Special Rapporteur, assisted by the Secretariat and in
consultation with the panel of experts, to prepare a report on the result of the
monitoring on the implementation of the Standard Rules, for submission to the
Commission for Social Development at its forty-third session;
“6. Encourages Governments, as well as non-governmental
organizations and the private sector, to continue to contribute to the United
Nations Voluntary Fund on Disability in order to support the activities of the
Special Rapporteur as well as new and expanded initiatives to strengthen
national capacities for equalization of opportunities by, for and with persons
with disabilities.”
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1 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23),
chap. II, sect. A.
2 E/CN.5/2004/4.
3 Ibid., annex.