A/RES/72/162. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2017

• Resolution Number: A/RES/72/162
• Year: 2017
• Session: 72nd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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Seventy -second ses sion

Agen da item 72 (a)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 19 December 2017

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/72/ 439/ Add.1 )]

72/162. Implem entation of the C onvention on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities and the Optional Protoc ol thereto: situation of women

and girls wi th disabilities

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g i ts prev ious re levant reso lutions, the most rece nt of which was

resol ution 70 /145 of 1 7 Decemb er 2015, as well as relevant resoluti ons of th e Human

Righ ts Counc il and of t he Econ omic an d Socia l C ouncil and its f unctiona l

comm issi ons,

Reca lling also the univ ersality, in divisibi lity, in terdepe ndence an d

inter related ness of all human rig hts and fu ndame ntal freed oms and th e need fo r

perso ns with di sabiliti es to be gua ranteed t he full en joyment o f their rig hts and

free doms wit hout di scrimina tion,

Reaf firm ing t he Univer sal Decl aration of Human Ri ghts,

1

the Co nvention on the

Righ ts of Perso ns with D isabili ties

2

and t he Opt ional P rotocol ther eto,

3

th e

Conv ention on the Elimi nation of All Forms of Dis crimina tion ag ainst Wom en,

4

th e

Conv ention on the Rights of the Child

5

and all o ther relevan t in ternatio nal human

right s instru ments,

Reca llin g the Vienna De claratio n and Pr ogramme of Action,

6

the P rogramm e of

Acti on of th e Intern ational Confere nce on P opulatio n and D evelop ment,

7

the Beijing

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1

Resolut ion 21 7 A (III).

2

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 2515, N o. 44 910 .

3

Ibid., vol. 251 8, No . 449 10.

4

Ibid., vol. 124 9, No . 203 78.

5

Ibid., vol. 157 7, No . 275 31.

6

A/CONF.15 7/2 4 (P art I), chap. III.

7

Report of the Intern ationa l Conf erence o n Popu lation and Develo pment, Cairo, 5–13 S eptemb er

1994 (Un ited N ations public ation, Sales No. E. 95.XIII .18), chap. I , resol ution 1, anne x.