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COSP Background Note on Accessibility & Reasonable Accommodation
As announced by the Chair of the CRPD Bureau, Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico at a briefing he held with States on July...
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COSP Background Note on Equal Recognition Before the Law and Supported Decision-Making
The CRPD adopts a new approach to legal capacity that makes it possible for people with disabilities to exercise their human right to...
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COSP Background Note on Access to Justice
Physical accessibility to and within courts and prisons, and accessibility in communication with participants including sign language interpretation, Braille and large print text,...
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COSP Background Note on Disability and Poverty in Current Economic Crisis
People with disabilities are more frequently and more severely affected by situations of poverty and extreme poverty. They are also one of the...
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Partnership for the Sustainable Development Goals
The platform initially developed in response to Rio+20 has been improved to better respond to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in order...
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Legal opinion on Article 12of the CRPD
Legal opinion on Article 12 of the UN Conventiona on the Rights of Person with Disabilties - signed by more than 30 distinguished...
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HRC Resolution 26/20
Human Rights Council
Twenty-sixth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
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UNGA Resolution 67/290: Format and Organizational Aspects of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 July 2013, 67/290: Format and organizational aspects of the high-level political forum on sustainable development.