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

A/RES/67/140View 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 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2013–2015

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/69/142

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2015	A/RES/69/142	Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond	2,066	40%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/140	Realizing the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond	1,111	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2014–2016

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/214	Realization of internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities and progress made in the implementation of the Outcome Document of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and Other Internationally Agreed Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/69/142
2014	A/69/187	Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities : a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/67/140

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Data Collection Development Strategies Disability Statistics Empowerment Equal Opportunity International Organizations Partnership Persons with Disabilities Poverty Mitigation Programme Implementation Regional Organizations

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the holding of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly, at the level of Heads of State and Government, on 23 September 2013, with the overarching theme “The way forward: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”, in order to strengthen efforts to ensure accessibility for and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of development, and looks forward to the contribution its outcome document could make in mainstreaming the rights of persons with disabilities in the development agenda beyond 2015;

Also welcomes the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond”,⁹ and the recommendations contained therein;

⁹A/67/211.

Urges Member States, international and regional organizations, regional integration organizations and financial institutions to make a concerted effort to include persons with disabilities and integrate the principles of accessibility and inclusion in the monitoring and evaluation of the development goals;

Encourages the mobilization of resources on a sustainable basis to mainstream disability in development at all levels, and in this regard underlines the need to promote and strengthen international cooperation, including South-South and triangular cooperation, in support of national efforts, including, as appropriate, through the establishment of national mechanisms, in particular in developing countries;

Welcomes the establishment of the United Nations Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities trust fund, and encourages Member States and other stakeholders to support its objectives, including by providing voluntary contributions;

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 and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities;

Encourages Member States, United Nations organizations and the regional commissions to make all efforts to engage with and ensure the full and effective participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities and, as appropriate, organizations of persons with disabilities and national human rights institutions, in development processes and decision-making at the local, national, regional and international levels;

Requests the United Nations system, within existing resources, to update existing methodologies of disability data collection and analysis for persons with disabilities, to obtain internationally comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilities and to regularly include relevant disability data or relevant qualitative facts, as appropriate, in relevant United Nations publications in the field of economic and social development;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To submit information on the implementation of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session;

To submit the outcome of the sixth review and appraisal of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled PersonsError: Reference source not found to the General Assembly no later than June 2013, in advance of and as a contribution to the high-level meeting of the Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities, and in this regard requests all relevant United Nations organizations, through the Secretary-General, to provide an analysis of the overall situation of persons with disabilities within the context of development and in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,Error: Reference source not found based on available data and in accordance with their individual competencies and informed by regional consultations with persons with disabilities and organizations of persons with disabilities, as appropriate within existing resources.

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