Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities Towards 2015 and Beyond

A/RES/65/186View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 27b Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family, published in 2010.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2011–2012

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2012	A/67/211	Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities : a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/65/186
2011	A/66/128	Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/65/186

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Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Keeping the promise: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond”,⁶ and of the recommendations contained therein, and notes that the report contains options to update the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons;Error: Reference source not found

⁶A/65/173.

Notes that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesError: Reference source not found emphasizes the importance of international cooperation for improving the living conditions of persons with disabilities in every country, particularly in developing countries;

Also notes that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides comprehensive coverage of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of persons with disabilities;

Welcomes the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”,Error: Reference source not found particularly the recognition that policies and actions must also focus on persons with disabilities so that they benefit from progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals;

Urges Member States, and invites international organizations and regional organizations, regional integration organizations, financial institutions, the private sector and civil society, in particular organizations representing persons with disabilities, as appropriate, to promote the realization of the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities by, inter alia, explicitly including and mainstreaming disability issues and persons with disabilities in national plans and tools designed to contribute to the full realization of the Goals;

Urges the United Nations system to make a concerted effort to integrate disability issues into its work, and in this regard encourages the Inter-Agency Support Group on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to continue working to ensure that development programmes, including Millennium Development Goals policies, processes and mechanisms, are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;

Encourages Member States to ensure that their international cooperation, including through international development programmes, is inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;

Calls upon Governments and United Nations bodies and agencies to include disability issues and persons with disabilities in reviewing progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and to step up efforts to include in their assessment the extent to which persons with disabilities are able to benefit from efforts to achieve the Goals;

Calls upon Governments to enable persons with disabilities to participate as agents and beneficiaries of development, in particular in all efforts aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals, by ensuring that programmes and policies, namely on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development, are inclusive of and accessible to persons with disabilities;

Emphasizes the importance of the full participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities, including through information in accessible formats at all levels of policymaking and development, which is critical to informing policymakers on the situation of persons with disabilities, the barriers they may face and ways to overcome obstacles to the full and equal enjoyment of their rights, to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for all, including persons with disabilities, and to their socio-economic advancement;

Encourages international cooperation in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, including through global partnerships for development, which are crucial for the realization of the Goals for all, in particular for persons with disabilities;

Encourages Governments to develop and accelerate the exchange of information, guidelines, standards, best practices, legislative measures and government policies regarding the situation of persons with disabilities and disability issues, in particular as they relate to inclusion and accessibility;

Calls upon Governments to strengthen the collection and compilation of national data and information about the situation of persons with disabilities following existing guidelines on disability statistics⁷ that are disaggregated by sex and age, which could be used by Governments to enable their development policy planning, monitoring, evaluation and implementation to be disability-sensitive, in particular in the realization of the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities, and invites Governments to provide, where available, relevant data and statistics to the appropriate mechanisms within the United Nations system, including the Statistical Commission;

⁷Such as the Guidelines and Principles for the Development of Disability Statistics (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.Y/10 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.01.XVII.15)) and the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/67/Rev.2 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.07.VII.8)) and their updates.

Requests the United Nations system to facilitate technical assistance, within existing resources, including the provision of assistance for capacity-building and for the collection and compilation of national and regional data and statistics on disability, in particular to developing countries, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with existing guidelines on disability statistics, to analyse, publish and disseminate disability data and statistics in future periodic reports, as appropriate, on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To submit information on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session, with a view to convening, within existing resources, a high-level meeting at the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly on strengthening efforts to ensure accessibility for and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of development efforts;

To provide information on best practices at the international, regional, subregional and national levels for including persons with disabilities in all aspects of development efforts;

To submit during the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly information on the progress made towards the implementation of programmes and policies related to persons with disabilities within the framework of existing Millennium Development Goals, as well as on their impact;

To continue to improve accessibility and full inclusion of persons with disabilities, within existing resources, through, inter alia:

Accessibility of built environments, especially the premises at United Nations Headquarters;

Accessibility of information and services, including greater accessibility of official United Nations documentation and conferences, through the use of alternative formats, such as sign language interpretation, captioning, Braille and easy-to-use texts;

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Employment of persons with disabilities within the United Nations system, agencies, funds and programmes as well as regional offices;

To facilitate international cooperation in research and access to scientific and technical knowledge and, as appropriate, to facilitate access to and sharing of accessible and assistive technologies, inter alia, through the transfer of technologies.

Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities Towards 2015 and Beyond

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