A/RES/58/246. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2003

• Resolution Number: A/RES/58/246
• Year: 2003
• Session: 58th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/58/246

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 March 2004

Fifty-eighth session

Agenda item 117 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/508/Add.2)]

58/246. Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral

International Convention on the Protection and

Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons

with Disabilities

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 56/168 of 19 December 2001, by which it decided to

establish an Ad Hoc Committee open to the participation of all Member States and

observers to the United Nations, to consider proposals for a comprehensive and

integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of

persons with disabilities, based on a holistic approach in the work done in the fields

of social development, human rights and non-discrimination and taking into account

the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission for

Social Development,

Recalling also

its resolution 57/229 of 18 December 2002, as well as relevant

resolutions of the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on

Human Rights,

Reaffirming

the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human

rights and fundamental freedoms and the need for persons with disabilities to be

guaranteed their full enjoyment without discrimination,

Convinced

of the contribution that a convention can make in this regard,

Encouraging

Member States and observers to participate actively in the

Ad Hoc Committee in order to present to the General Assembly, as a matter of

priority, a draft text of a convention,

Stressing

the importance of the active participation of intergovernmental and

non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions in the work

of the Ad Hoc Committee, and their valuable contribution to the promotion of the

full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with

disabilities,

Recognizing

the important contributions made thus far to the Ad Hoc

Committee by all stakeholders,