Promoting Accessibility for the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights by All

Encourages States to take appropriate measures to ensure accessibility through national laws, development plans and policies, urban and rural planning and public service delivery, while developing accessible and age-friendly environments through universal design, in accordance with applicable international human rights obligations, taking into account their respective national circumstances, and to consider:

Calls upon States, the United Nations system and other relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society organizations, to promote and strengthen international cooperation and coordination, and to facilitate and support capacity-building initiatives and the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, aimed at, inter alia, fostering the exchange of technical knowledge, open-source digital assistive technologies, information and programmes at the regional and international levels relating to good practices in the implementation of measures on accessibility for all, particularly in the context of new and emerging digital technologies, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries, especially the least developed countries, including through the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries;

Invites the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide technical assistance and capacity-building support to States upon their request in developing and implementing policies and programmes on accessibility, to continue to share its expertise with the relevant intergovernmental organizations and United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and to assist the relevant special procedure mandate holders and treaty bodies, especially those related to persons with disabilities, older persons and other persons with accessibility needs, to integrate the view of accessibility for all from the perspective of the full enjoyment of all human rights into their work, including ongoing and future research and reports, in close consultation with the relevant stakeholders;

Requests the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, drawing on existing available resources, to prepare a study to identify remaining implementation gaps and practical measures on promoting accessibility for the full enjoyment of all human rights by all, in accordance with existing international human rights instruments, in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders, including States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, international and regional organizations, the Office of the High Commissioner, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, national human rights institutions, civil society, the private sector and academia, and to present the study to the Council at its sixty-ninth session;