A/RES/60/232. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2005

• Resolution Number: A/RES/60/232
• Year: 2005
• Session: 60th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/60/232

General Assembly Distr.: General

31 January 2006

Sixtieth session

Agenda item 71 (b)

05-50152

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2005

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part I))]

60/232. 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 59/198 of 20 December 2004, as well as relevant

resolutions of the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on

Human Rights,

Reaffirming

the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and

interrelatedness 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 will make in this regard, and

encouraged by the increased support of the international community for such a

convention,

Welcoming with satisfaction

the progress achieved so far in the negotiations on

a draft 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,

Underlining

the importance of the participation of the Special Rapporteur on

disability of the Commission for Social Development in the work of the Ad Hoc

Committee,