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A/C.3/59/L.58

Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities : draft resolution / Chile, et. al.

UN Document Symbol A/C.3/59/L.58
Convention Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Document Type Draft Resolution
Session 59th
Type Document
Description

3 p.

Subjects Persons with Disabilities, Resources Allocation, Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries

Extracted Text

United Nations A/C.3/59/L.58
General Assembly Distr.: Limited
2 November 2004
Original: English
04-58904 (E) 051104
*0458904*
Fifty-ninth session
Third Committee
Agenda item 105 (b)
Human rights questions: human rights questions, including
alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Mexico and Venezuela: draft resolution
Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the
Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 56/168 of 19 December 2001, by which it decided to
establish an Ad Hoc Committee open to the participation of all Member States and
observers to the United Nations, to consider proposals for a comprehensive and
integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of
persons with disabilities, based on a holistic approach in the work done in the fields
of social development, human rights and non-discrimination and taking into account
the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission for
Social Development,
Recalling also its resolution 58/246 of 23 December 2003, as well as relevant
resolutions of the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on
Human Rights,
Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be
guaranteed their full enjoyment without discrimination,
Convinced of the contribution that a convention can make in this regard, and
encouraged by the increased support of the international community for such a
convention,
Stressing the importance of the active participation of intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions in the work
of the Ad Hoc Committee, and their valuable contribution to the promotion of the full
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disabilities,

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Underlining the importance of the participation of the Special Rapporteur on
disability of the Commission for Social Development in the work of the Ad Hoc
Committee,
Recognizing the important contributions made thus far to the Ad Hoc
Committee by all stakeholders,
1. Welcomes the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and
Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities;1
2. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the Ad Hoc
Committee to the Commission for Social Development at its forty-third session and
to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-first session, and further requests
both Commissions to continue to contribute to the work of the Ad Hoc Committee;
3. Welcomes with satisfaction the beginning of the negotiations by the Ad
Hoc Committee on a draft convention at its third session, as requested by General
Assembly resolution 58/246, and the progress achieved so far in the negotiation of a
draft convention;
4. Requests the Ad Hoc Committee to increase its momentum in the current
negotiations on the draft convention, with the aim of submitting it to the General
Assembly at its sixtieth session;
5. Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall hold, within existing resources,
two sessions of fifteen working days each in 2005, in January/February and in
August, respectively, prior to the sixtieth session of the General Assembly;
6. Underlines the importance of further strengthening the cooperation and
coordination between the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat
in order to provide substantive and technical support to the work of the Ad Hoc
Committee, and in this regard invites them to organize, within existing resources, in
close connection and timing with the meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee, meetings
of experts and seminars in relation to the draft convention and to provide, in
advance of the meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee, background documentation to
assist Member States and observers in the negotiation of a draft convention;
7. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Ad Hoc
Committee with the facilities necessary for the performance of its work, and in this
context requests the Secretary-General to reallocate resources to the United Nations
Programme on Disability so as to provide support to the negotiations on a draft
convention;
8. Stresses the need for additional efforts to ensure accessibility at the
United Nations, with reasonable accommodation regarding facilities and
documentation, for all persons with disabilities, in accordance with General
Assembly decision 56/474 of 23 July 2002;
9. Encourages Member States to continue to include in their delegations to
the Ad Hoc Committee persons with disabilities and/or other experts in the field;
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1 See A/59/360.

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10. Urges Member States, observers, civil society and the private sector to
contribute to the voluntary fund established pursuant to its resolution 57/229 of
18 December 2002 to support the participation of non-governmental organizations
and experts from developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in the
work of the Ad Hoc Committee;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to disseminate widely to nongovernmental
organizations all available information on accreditation procedures,
modalities and supportive measures for their participation in the work of the Ad Hoc
Committee, as well as the guidelines applicable to the financial assistance that is
available through the voluntary fund;
12. Also requests the Secretary-General to transmit a comprehensive report
of the Ad Hoc Committee and to report on the implementation of paragraphs 6, 7, 8
and 11 of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session.