A/RES/74/144. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/74/144
• Session: 74th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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Seventy -fourth ses sion

Agen da item 70 (a)

Promoti on and protect ion of huma n rights: implementati on

of huma n rights ins truments

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 18 December 2019

[on th e report of the Third Committe e (A/74/ 399/ Add.1 )]

74/144. Imple menta tion of the Conven tion o n the Rights of Persons with

Disabi lities and t he Optional Proto col thereto: acces sibili ty

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g i ts reso lution 72/162 of 19 Dec ember 2017 a nd its previou s rele vant

resol utions, as well as relev ant re solution s of the H uman R ights Council and of th e

Econ omic an d Social Counci l and its functio nal com mission s,

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

inter related ness of al l human ri ghts and fu ndament al freedo ms and the need for

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,

Reaff irmin g th e Univers al Declar ation of H uman Rig hts,

1

the Conventio n on the

Right s o f Persons wit h Disabilit ies

2

and th e O ptional Pro tocol there to,

3

the Co nvention

on the E liminatio n of All Fo rms of Discr imination agai nst Women,

4

the Conve ntion

on the Rights of the Child,

5

the Inter national Conve ntion on the E liminatio n of All

Forms o f Racial Discr iminatio n

6

an d all other rele vant intern ational huma n rights

instr umen ts,

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1

Resolut ion 21 7 A (III) .

2

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 2515 , No. 44910.

3

Ibid., vol. 25 18, No . 4491 0.

4

Ibid., vol. 12 49, No . 2037 8.

5

Ibid., vol. 15 77, No . 2753 1.

6

Ibid., vol. 66 0, No. 9464.