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Statement of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on including the rights of persons with disabilities in the post 2015 agenda on disability and development

May 2013

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has followed with interest the preparatory process of the one-day High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on disability and development (HLMDD) convened by the General Assembly pursuant to its resolution 66/124, and scheduled to take place on 23 September 2013.

It welcomes the General Assembly decision, inter-alia, that the High level Meeting would result in a concise, action oriented outcome document in support of the aims of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the Convention) as well as that persons with disabilities and their representative organizations be represented during the preparatory process, and in the High-Level Meeting.

The Committee has considered several reports submitted by States parties to the Convention. Based on this experience, the Committee is convinced that the human rights of persons with disabilities as enshrined in the Convention and other human rights treaties, and the human rights-based approach to disability which the Convention embodies, must be used as a yardstick and as a standard to uphold in the High-Level Meeting and the outcome document of the Meeting. The principles, objectives and provisions of the Convention should drive the entire process leading to the High-Level Meeting and should guide and be reflected in its outcome.

Download the document from http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/CRPD/StatementInclusionPost2015.doc

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Source: OHCHR
When: 22/6/2013