Meeting of the Ad Hoc
Committee : Participation and
accreditation on non-governmental organizationsDecision 56/474 *
United Nations General Assembly
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda items 8 and 119 (b)
Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the
General Committee
Human rights questions: human rights questions, including alternative
approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Participation of persons with disabilities in the Ad Hoc Committee
on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection
and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
The General Assembly requests the Secretary-General to make, as
needed and within existing resources, reasonable efforts to facilitate
the participation by persons with disabilities in the meetings and
deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities. Such efforts may include but are
not limited to:
(a) The facilitation of entry into United Nations premises by
individuals serving as guides, personal assistants or interpreters
for persons with disabilities;
(b) The holding of meetings in those United Nations conference
rooms that are better equipped to facilitate that participation of
persons with mobility-related and other physical disabilities;
(c) The adoption of a practice whereby documents distributed in
the course of one meeting or shortly in advance of a meeting will
not be discussed before the next scheduled meeting, thereby
affording persons with visual disabilities sufficient time to
convert those documents into a format readable by them;
(d) The adoption, to the extent necessary and possible, of
measures to enable persons with hearing disabilities to participate
in the deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee.
23 July 2002
* Contained in A/56/49 Vol. III. Same as A/56/L.83 and Add.1
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