A/RES/74/144
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (a)
Promotion and protection of human rights: implementation
of human rights instruments
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.1)]
74/144.
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 72/162 of 19 December 2017 and its previous relevant
resolutions, as well as relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council and of the
Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions,
Recalling also the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and
interrelatedness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for
persons with disabilities to be guaranteed the full enjoyment of their rights and
freedoms without discrimination,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 3 the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, 5 the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination 6 and all other relevant international human rights
instruments,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
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