A/RES/70/145. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/145
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

A/RES/70/145*

General Assembly

Distr.: General

12 February 2016

Seventieth session

Agenda item 72 (a)

15-16899* (E)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/489/Add.1)]

70/145 . Conve ntion o n the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and

the Op tional Protoco l there to

The General Assembly ,

Reca lling it s prev ious re levant reso lutions, the most rece nt of whic h was

resol ution 67/16 0 of 2 0 Dece mber 20 12, as wel l as r elevant reso lutions of the

Huma n Right s Coun cil, th e C ommissi on for Soci al Deve lopment a nd the

Comm ission on Huma n Right s,

Reca lling al so its reso lution 6 8/268 o f 9 Apri l 2014 on st rengthe ning and

enha ncing th e effect ive func tioning of the h uman ri ghts tre aty body system,

Reca lling fu rther the univ ersality, indi visibili ty, interd ependen ce and

inter related ness of all human ri ghts and f undamen tal free doms and the need f or

perso ns with di sabiliti es to be gu arantee d the full e njoyment of their r ights and

free doms wit hout di scrimina tion,

Welcomi ng the fact t hat, s ince t he op ening for si gnature of the C onventio n on

the Righ ts of Per sons w ith Di sabilit ies

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and the Optio nal Pr otocol ther eto

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30 Mar ch 2 007, 160 State s ha ve signed and 160 Sta tes and 1 regional int egratio n

organ ization have rati fied or ac ceded to the Conventi on a nd 92 Sta tes h ave s igned

and 88 State s have r atified the Opt ional Pr otocol ,

Bear ing i n min d th e upc oming ten th an niversar y of t he ad option of th e

Conv ention, to be co mmemor ated in Decembe r 2016,

Welcomi ng the ap pointme nt of the S pecial Rapport eur on the rights of per sons

with di sabiliti es by the Huma n Rig hts C ouncil and her re port to the Gen eral

Asse mbly on the rig ht of pe rsons wi th disab ilities to socia l protec tion,

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Noti ng wi th ap preciatio n th e wo rk an d act ivities that have been and conti nue

to be und ertaken i n support o f t he Conven tion, incl uding thro ugh, inter a lia, the

Conf erence of Stat es Parti es to t he Conv ention, the rep ort of the Sec retary -Genera l,

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* Reissued for technical reasons on 7 April 2016.

1

United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2515, No. 44910.

2

Ibid., vol. 2518, No. 44910.

3

A/70/297.

4

A/69/284.