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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities
Recalling also the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 4 the outcome
document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the
Millennium Development Goals, 5 the outcome document of the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, 6 the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United
Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 7 the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 8 the
outcome document of the 2016 high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly on HIV
and AIDS, entitled “Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to
Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030”, 9 the
outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly known as the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 10 the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with
Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, launched during the first World Humanitarian
Summit, and the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United Nations Conference on
Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), 11 which contain
references to the rights, participation, perspectives and well-being of persons with
disabilities in development efforts,
Recalling further the outcome document of its high-level meeting on the
overarching theme “The way forward: a disability-inclusive development agenda
towards 2015 and beyond”, held on 23 September 2013 at the level of Heads of State
and Government, 12
Noting that the Commission for Social Development decided to review,
beginning at its fifty-seventh session, the World Programme of Action concerning
Disabled Persons 13 and the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for
Persons with Disabilities 14 by proceeding to the review 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: the way forward, a disability-inclusive development agenda towards
2015 and beyond, 15
Reaffirming the follow-up and review of progress in the implementation of the
Sustainable Development Goals by the high-level political forum on sustainable
development and the inclusion of persons with disabilities as stakeholders in its work,
as set out in resolution 67/290 of 9 July 2013,
Noting the panel discussion organized by the President of the General Assembly
held on 13 June 2016 to follow up on the status of and progress made towards the
realization of the development goals for persons with disabilities in relation to the
follow-up to the outcome of the high-level meeting on disability and development
and to the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
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Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution 65/1.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
Resolution 69/283, annex II.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
Resolution 70/266, annex.
Resolution 69/2.
Resolution 71/256, annex.
Resolution 68/3.
A/37/351/Add.1 and A/37/351/Add.1/Corr.1, annex, sect. VIII, recommendation 1 (IV).
Resolution 48/96, annex.
See Economic and Social Council resolution 2018/3.
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