A/56/L.83
Participation of persons with disabilities in the Ad-Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities : draft decision / Canada and Mexico
| UN Document Symbol | A/56/L.83 |
|---|---|
| Convention | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
| Document Type | Other |
| Session | 56th |
| Type | Document |
| Description |
2 p. |
| Subjects | Persons with Disabilities, Blind Persons, Deaf Persons |
Extracted Text
United Nations A/56/L.83
General Assembly Distr.: Limited
19 July 2002
Original: English
02-48728 (E) 190702
*0248728*
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda items 8 and 119 (b)
Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports
of the General Committee
Human rights questions: human rights questions, including
alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Canada and Mexico: draft decision
Participation of persons with disabilities in the Ad Hoc Committee
on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on
Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons
with Disabilities
The General Assembly requests the Secretary-General to make, as needed and
within existing resources, reasonable efforts to facilitate the participation by persons
with disabilities in the meetings and deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee on a
Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of
the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. Such efforts may include but are not
limited to:
(a) The facilitation of entry into United Nations premises by individuals serving
as guides, personal assistants or interpreters for persons with disabilities;
(b) The holding of meetings in those United Nations conference rooms that are
better equipped to facilitate that participation of persons with mobility-related and other
physical disabilities;
(c) The adoption of a practice whereby documents distributed in the course of
one meeting or shortly in advance of a meeting will not be discussed before the next
scheduled meeting, thereby affording persons with visual disabilities sufficient time to
convert those documents into a format readable by them;
* In order for the General Assembly to take action on the present proposal, it will be necessary for the
Assembly to decide to consider directly, in plenary meeting, agenda item 119 (b).
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(d) The adoption, to the extent necessary and possible, of measures to enable
persons with hearing disabilities to participate in the deliberations of the Ad Hoc
Committee.
