A/HRC/37/56
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 December 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons
with disabilities
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, pursuant to Council
resolutions 26/20 and 35/6. In her report, the Special Rapporteur provides an overview of
the activities undertaken in 2017 and a thematic study on the right of persons with
disabilities to equal recognition before the law. The study provides guidance to States on
how to guarantee this right for persons with disabilities, paying particular attention to the
process of law reform on legal capacity.
GE.17-22328(E)