A/RES/48/96. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1993

• Resolution Number: A/RES/48/96
• Year: 1993
• Session: 48th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/48/96

4 March 1994

Forty-eighth session

Agenda item 109

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/627)]

48/96. Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities

for Persons with Disabilities

The General Assembly,

Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/26 of 24 May 1990,

in which the Council authorized the Commission for Social Development to

consider, at its thirty-second session, the establishment of an ad hoc

open-ended working group of government experts, funded by voluntary

contributions, to elaborate standard rules on the equalization of

opportunities for disabled children, youth and adults, in close collaboration

with the specialized agencies, other intergovernmental bodies and

non-governmental organizations, especially organizations of disabled persons,

and requested the Commission, should it establish such a working group, to

finalize the text of those rules for consideration by the Council in 1993 and

for submission to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session,

Also recalling that in its resolution 32/2 of 20 February 1991 1/ the

Commission for Social Development decided to establish an ad hoc open-ended

working group of government experts in accordance with Economic and Social

Council resolution 1990/26,

Noting with appreciation the participation of many States, specialized

agencies, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations,

especially organizations of disabled persons, in the deliberations of the

working group,

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1/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1991,

Supplement No. 6 (E/1991/26), chap. I, sect. D.

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Also noting with appreciation the generous financial contributions of

Member States to the working group,

Welcoming the fact that the working group was able to fulfil its mandate

within three sessions of five working days each,

Acknowledging with appreciation the report of the ad hoc open-ended

working group to elaborate standard rules on the equalization of opportunities

for persons with disabilities, 2/

Taking note of the discussion in the Commission for Social Development

at its thirty-third session 3/ on the draft standard rules contained in the

report of the working group,

1. Adopts the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for

Persons with Disabilities, set forth in the annex to the present resolution;

2. Requests Member States to apply the Rules in developing national

disability programmes;

3. Urges Member States to meet the requests of the Special

Rapporteur 4/ for information on the implementation of the Rules;

4. Requests the Secretary-General to promote the implementation of

the Rules and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fiftieth

session;

5. Urges Member States to support, financially and otherwise, the

implementation of the Rules.

85th plenary meeting

20 December 1993

ANNEX

Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for

Persons with Disabilities

INTRODUCTION

Background and current needs

Previous international action

Towards standard rules

Purpose and content of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of

Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

Fundamental concepts in disability policy

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2/ E/CN.5/1993/5, annex.

3/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993,

Supplement No. 4 (E/1993/24), chap. III, sect. E.

4/ See sect. IV, para. 2, of the annex to the present resolution.

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