人权理事会举行关于处于危险和人道主义紧急状况中的残疾人权利问题的年度辩论（部分翻译）

人权理事会
上午

2016年3月4日

听取联合国人权事务高级专员的开场发言

今天，人权理事会举行了关于残疾人权利问题的年度互动辩论，此次辩论的焦点是处于危险和人道主义紧急状况中的残疾人，该标准是由《残疾人权利公约》第11条以及在其指导下制定的政策措施所规定的。

联合国人权事务高级专员扎伊德•拉阿德•侯赛因（Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein）在开场发言中提到，处于冲突和紧急状况下的残疾人通常会面临不成比例的严峻风险。应急措施的组织者常常无法在计划中将残疾人纳入其中，这样的失败常导致设施的不齐全和有障碍。无论是在紧急状况管理还是在所有其他社会背景下，残疾人面对的许多障碍都是完全可以避免的。五月的世界人道主义首脑会议提供了采取切实行动促进改变的机遇。

残疾人权利问题特别报告员卡塔丽娜•德班达斯•阿吉拉尔（Catalina Devandas Aguilar）表示，紧急人道主义状况会对残疾人产生更重大的影响，他们无法使用警告系统和疏散计划，也未能参与准备并应对紧急状况的工作。应提供一种基于人权的方法实现包容性人道主义应急措施，也应为针对残疾人的人道主义行动的所有阶段提供一种基于性别的方法。

残疾人权利委员会副主席黛安娜•金斯敦（Diane Kingston）表示，必须确保无障碍、无歧视以及体恤性别的应对第11条内容的方式。同样重要的是确保残疾人获得人道主义援助或紧急程序信息的渠道，境内流离失所残疾人接受登记，以及为寻求庇护的残疾人提供无障碍服务。

联合国难民事务高级专员办事处（UNHCR）残疾人高级顾问克里斯汀•朗格（Kirstin Lange）表示，难民署注重与残疾人合作的一个关键内容就是与人道主义和残疾人行为体建立新的伙伴关系。确保在危险状况下保护残疾人的做法需要进行转变，将残疾人系统地纳入所有地区的人道主义应急措施之中。

太平洋残疾人论坛首席执行官Setareki Macanawai表示，由于残疾人的权利、经历、专业知识和需求通常得不到考虑，因此残疾人常常无法获取应急方案或被其排除在外。需要一种积极主动的方法以确认并消除残疾人参与准备、预防、缓解和救济服务与方案中面临的障碍。

国际残疾协会区域包容性顾问米洛斯拉瓦•塔达林（Myroslava Tataryn）对缺乏上报并追踪针对残疾人暴力行为且终止犯罪者有罪不罚的机制表示遗憾。如果没有建立指导残疾人包容性举措的全球标准，那么提高无障碍服务的措施将始终是临时性的，且完全依赖于各个孤立服务提供方的良好意愿。

在辩论期间，几位发言者都承认冲突和自然灾害对处境最不利的人们，尤其是残疾人，造成了不成比例的严重影响，且国际人道主义援助提供方并未充分有效地解决他们的需求。发言人强调了将包容性贯穿各个阶段的重要性，并着重提到在此方面的国际合作和资金支持的必要性。

在辩论期间，欧盟、代表阿拉伯集团的科威特、代表拉美及加勒比国家共同体的多米尼加共和国、代表非洲集团的南非、代表《禁止杀伤人员地雷公约》受害者援助事务委员会的泰国、墨西哥、印度、阿拉伯联合酋长国、以色列、塞内加尔、中国、法国、奥地利、格鲁吉亚、埃及、新西兰、芬兰、巴拉圭、日本、尼泊尔、突尼斯、俄罗斯联邦、加拿大、意大利、菲律宾、伊朗、葡萄牙、西班牙、苏丹、南非、保加利亚、澳大利亚、印度尼西亚、委内瑞拉、沙特阿拉伯、利比亚、爱沙尼亚、巴西和厄瓜多尔的代表们作了发言。联合国儿童基金会也作了发言。

南风发展政策协会（Verein Sudwind Entwicklungspolitik）、国际罐头业常设委员会（Canners International Permanent Committee）、人权观察（Human Rights Watch）、泛非科学和技术联盟（Pan-African Union for Science and Technology）以及阿拉伯人权委员会也发表了讲话。

人权理事会今天举行全天会议。午间，理事会将结束与防止灭绝种族罪行秘书长特别顾问以及人权维护者处境问题特别报告员的集体互动对话。理事会随后将开展与残疾人权利问题特别报告员和白化病患者享有人权问题独立专家的集体互动对话。

开场发言

联合国人权事务高级专员扎伊德•拉阿德•侯赛因表示，今天是他第一次就有关残疾人权利的重要问题在理事会上发言。当今的人道主义形势十分严峻，全球发生的冲突数量远远超乎想象，联合国正竭尽全力满足这些紧急状况的应急需求，包括在叙利亚、伊拉克、南苏丹、也门、布隆迪、中非共和国、乍得湖一带遭到博科圣地组织袭击的国家、刚果民主共和国、利比亚、马里、巴勒斯坦被占领土、索马里、苏丹和乌克兰等地。大部分冲突都属于残暴的内部冲突，高级专员称之为对保护平民的基本规范“令人震惊的漠视”。气候变化意味着全球诸多地区将会发生十分严重的自然灾害。在所有的冲突和紧急状况下，残疾人通常会面临不成比例的严峻风险。

当遭遇迫在眉睫的危险时，家庭可能会面临丢下身患残疾的家庭成员这样不可能两全的选择。当他们设法逃离冲突、紧急状况或灾难时，残疾人也许无法获得急需的帮助，而这本是他们应有的权利。应急措施的组织者常常无法在计划中将残疾人纳入其中，这样的失败常导致设施的不齐全和有障碍。这是对最基本的人权原则令人震惊的严重侵犯。对残疾人的包容应被视为任何人道主义应急措施中不可缺少的标准部分。十年前，《残疾人权利公约》对国际法中就残疾人问题采取的办法进行了重大改变。残疾人之前被视作国际慈善的目标，现已成为完全平等的法律主体。高级专员说，《2030年可持续发展议程》标志着残疾人事业发展的又一大进步，并列举了议程中的一些相关目标。其中包括关于数据和无障碍性的目标17，它将通过改善分类数据的获取渠道，使残疾人在规划者面前更加“可见”。他鼓励成员国促进残疾人参与七月高级别论坛对议程第一次审议的报告过程。

可以看出，近些年安全理事会、许多区域性组织和整个联合国人道主义系统都对残疾人权利给予了更多关注。仙台减少灾害风险框架（Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction）中包含了一些关键举措，即增加在预防灾害和最小化灾害风险的方案和措施中对残疾人的包容性，但在应急措施的规划中，残疾人的需求和意见仍需要更多关注。五月的世界人道主义首脑会议提供了采取切实行动促进改变的机遇。高级专员鼓励成员国支持民间社会团体在十月社会论坛中的广泛参与，该论坛也将确认《2030年议程》年限内的一些主要挑战。无论是在紧急状况管理还是在所有其他社会背景下，残疾人面对的许多障碍都是完全可以避免的。对残疾人的歧视是无法容忍的，阻止残疾人分享社会的共同使命也将危害整个社会。

Statements by the Panellists

CATALINA DEVANDAS AGUILAR, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, said that humanitarian emergencies, including the situation in Syria and climate change, had a severer impact on disadvantaged groups, including persons with disabilities. Warning systems were not available to them, and evacuation plans did not take their needs into account. There was a lack of training and awareness among humanitarian aid workers on their needs. It was necessary to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all phases of preparation and response to emergency situations. There should be a human rights-based approach to inclusive humanitarian responses, and a gender-based approach to all phases of humanitarian action targeting persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities should be involved in decision-making. Armed conflicts were where the most work needed to be done, and the Security Council should be involved in efforts to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities. The result of the World Humanitarian Summit should include guidelines on humanitarian response and persons with disabilities.

DIANE KINGSTON, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, said it was important to develop standards for ensuring that persons with disabilities had access to information on humanitarian aid or emergency procedures. In eastern Ukraine, children with disabilities were left behind when emergency procedures were launched. Internally displaced persons with disabilities had to be systematically registered, especially in eastern Ukraine. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities had developed standards for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in national emergency response plans and protocols. Europe lacked accessibility services for asylum seekers with disabilities. The Committee had asked for mainstreaming policies on disabilities within the European Union’s response to the migrant crisis. The needs of for the inclusion of persons with disabilities had to be taken into account in refugee camps, in Kenya for example. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities had issued its General Comment no. 2 on accessibility, which contained useful guidance for States. The Committee was asking for accessibility, non-discrimination, and gender-sensitive article 11-response.

KIRSTIN LANGE, Senior Disability Advisor, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, reminded that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities applied to all persons with disabilities, regardless of their legal status or nationality. It provided a valuable tool for the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities displaced by armed conflict and other humanitarian emergencies, including refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons. A key aspect of UNHCR’s focus in working with persons with disabilities was to build new partnerships between humanitarian and disability actors, including Disabled Persons Organizations and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities. They could play a valuable role in building the capacity of humanitarian actors to implement an inclusive approach, in advocating for the rights of displaced persons with disabilities, and in strengthening linkages between displaced and host communities. Ensuring the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk required a shift towards persons with disabilities being systematically included across all areas of humanitarian response, rather than disability being seen as a discrete sector or area of work.

SETAREKI MACANAWAI, Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Disability Forum, stated that it was widely reported that situations of disaster had the largest impact on the poorest and most marginalized people. It could not be ignored that 80 per cent of persons with disabilities lived in developing countries and that the majority of them lived below the poverty line. It could also not be forgotten that invisibility, exclusion and segregation remained huge barriers faced by persons with disabilities both in developed and developing countries. Emergency responses were often neither accessible to nor inclusive of persons with disabilities because they very often did not take into account the rights, experiences, expertise and needs of persons with disabilities. A proactive approach was needed in order to identify and remove barriers to persons with disabilities from having access to preparedness, prevention, mitigation and relief services and programmes. Disability disaster risk reduction could not be implemented alone. It required a multi-stakeholder approach adopting a working strategy with all of society strengthening synergies across stakeholders. International cooperation, whether North-South, South-South or triangular, were important for disaster risk reduction. At the same time, it was important that all multilateral cooperation for development and humanitarian collaboration were inclusive of and benefited from persons with disabilities.

MYROSLAVA TATARYN, Regional Inclusion Adviser, Handicap International, said that she would raise three issues of urgent concern: the greater marginalization of people with disabilities in crises, the invisibility of persons with disabilities impacted by humanitarian crises, and people with disabilities’ lack of access to humanitarian services ostensibly in place to serve all people affected by the crisis at hand. In situations of crisis, persons with disabilities were targets of violence. To date, there was no mechanism by which disability-targeted violence could be reported and tracked. Worldwide collection and reporting of cases could end impunity for perpetrators. When “specific needs” were tracked during the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ registration process, only the most severe cases were recorded. Ten years after the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities had been adopted, their marginalization persisted. Without global standards guiding inclusive practices for persons with disabilities, steps to enhance access to services would remain ad-hoc, relying solely on the good intentions of isolated service providers. Changes would not be sustainable until the principles of accessibility and inclusion were systematically required by Member States and United Nations agencies.

Interactive Dialogue

European Union said that the European Union Council adopted in March 2015 conclusions on disability-inclusive disaster management, while the European Commission was currently working on a new comprehensive policy approach to address protracted forced displacement through both humanitarian assistance and development cooperation. Kuwait, speaking on behalf of the Arab Group, said that armed conflicts had had an impact on social services, which had affected persons with disabilities disproportionately, and underlined that the priority now was to combat terrorism. Dominican Republic, speaking on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, noted with satisfaction that the need to adopt inclusive risk management policies and humanitarian responses had become more visible, and recognized the importance of including persons with disabilities for reconstruction measures. South Africa, speaking on behalf of the African Group, said that the African Union draft Protocol on persons with disabilities included provisions aimed at ensuring that humanitarian aid was inclusive, and said that adequate resource allocation was key to address the needs of persons with disabilities. Thailand, speaking on behalf of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention’s Committee on Victim Assistance, underlined the importance of data collection and disaggregated information on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian response and post-conflict situations. Mexico asked what measures could be taken to identify persons with disabilities prior to emergency response and after, and asked what type of protocols should be applied to guarantee that evacuations took the needs of persons with disabilities into account.

India highlighted the interrelatedness and connectedness of all the rights of persons with disabilities. The Indian national legislative framework provided for the full participation of persons with disabilities in society, and it aimed to respond to their needs. United Arab Emirates underlined that a human rights-based approach to the rights of persons with disabilities would ensure that they were included in the design of policies with respect to disaster and risk situations, and emergencies. Israel stated that it was faced with many emergencies due to the armed conflict and it thus designated a particular body to prepare the public for situations of emergency, which focused on providing service to persons with disabilities. Senegal said it had engaged in a process to reinforce its legal framework in order to guarantee and safeguard the fundamental rights of persons with disabilities in the area of health, education, employment and social integration. China reminded that the issue of disability had been integrated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and accordingly in 2015 China had also adopted such an approach in its national policies. France noted that persons with disabilities were rarely an object of attention in the management of humanitarian emergencies, which reduced their access to relevant resources. The situation of women and girls with disabilities was of particular concern.

Verein Sudwind Entwicklungspolitik asked the panellists how many States had already used the key related recommendations of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction regarding persons with disabilities and whether States, especially those with mega-cities on earthquake fault lines, had already established emergency-related plans for persons with disabilities. Canners International Permanent Committee said that the human rights based approach to persons with disabilities required a break with traditional attitudes, adding that disability could result in discrimination. Human Rights Watch said that during the past year, the organization had documented how persons with disabilities were particularly affected by conflict-driven conditions in, among other situations, the European refugee crisis, finding that persons with disabilities faced added risks of abandonment, neglect, and lack of equal access to humanitarian aid during conflict and displacement.

Response by the Panellists

CATALINA DEVANDAS AGUILAR, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, said that persons with disabilities should be consulted to identify what their needs were. They should speak for themselves as direct agents for change. International cooperation had to be inclusive of persons with disabilities. There were good examples of this in Finland.

DIANE KINGSTON, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, said that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities did not refer to the prevention of disabilities, but addressed the needs of persons with an existing disability.

KIRSTIN LANGE, Senior Disability Advisor at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, noted the importance of supporting host communities in situations of forced displacement, hence strengthening their capacities to address the needs of refugees with disabilities.

SETAREKI MACANAWAI, Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Disability Forum, responding to a question posed by the Indian delegation, clarified that when it came to saving the lives of persons with disabilities in natural disasters, it was important to adopt a community-based approach to the management of natural disasters. A community-based approach would guarantee that persons with disabilities were included in the design of disaster management policies and decision-making.

MYROSLAVA TATARYN, Regional Inclusion Adviser at Handicap International, noted that mainstream service providers still did not have the necessary skills and experiences on how to make their services accessible to persons with disabilities. There was a need to make all shelters accessible to persons with disabilities. It was important to know how to adapt and listen to people’s needs. That was particularly important in the case of refugees with disabilities. For that reason Handicap International had held meetings with refugees with disabilities in Lebanon in order to provide specific capacity-building training with a focus on disability.

Interactive Dialogue

Austria said that every day, Austrian authorities tried to ensure that urgent assistance was provided to refugees in need of help. It asked the panel to enumerate concrete measures that the international community could take to address the specific needs of women and girls with disabilities in situations of risk. Georgia said that the Convention applied throughout the continuum of humanitarian emergencies, whether in situations of conflict, foreign occupation, or natural disaster, adding that in her country, due to the foreign military occupation of two regions, persons were deprived of their basic human rights and freedoms. Egypt encouraged the Special Rapporteur and other international human rights mechanisms to consider dedicating a future stand-alone study to the rights of persons with disabilities under foreign occupation, where the implementation of Article 11 faced unmatched obstacles.

New Zealand said that lessons learned from the experiences of persons with disabilities in the Canterbury earthquakes were informing the country’s dialogue on improving the safety of its population during future high risk events, adding that it had nominated a person with a learning disability for election to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the 2017-2020 term, Robert Martin. Finland said it was crucial that Member States seized the opportunity provided by the World Humanitarian Summit to recommit themselves to international humanitarian principles and law, and asked the panellists what in their view should be the minimum standards and guidelines on disability inclusion in humanitarian action. Paraguay noted its own recent launch of a new national action plan for persons with disabilities which had the technical cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and exhorted mandate holders to give follow-up to provide greater incentives to governments to take on such measures.

Japan said it had revised its Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act in 2013, which now required heads of municipal governments to prepare a list of persons who required special assistance in seeking refuge and evacuation. Nepal stated that it was taking necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies. Tunisia noted that it had ensured the access of persons with disabilities to health, transportation and information in cases of natural emergencies. The rights of persons with disabilities had to be included in all national plans and policies. Russian Federation stated that the rights of persons with disabilities in the Russian Federation were widely protected by the national legal framework, as well as concrete legal acts dealing with emergency situations. Canada warned that persons with disabilities were rarely included as active participants in planning, implementing and monitoring emergency response, or when assessing the impact of emergencies on populations. Italy noted that persons with disabilities made up 15 per cent of the world’s population and that they were one of the most vulnerable groups and were disproportionately affected by natural catastrophes and humanitarian emergencies.

Pan-African Union for Science and Technology said that persons with disabilities often lived on the margins of society, and listed relevant United Nations statistics related to persons with disabilities, including literacy rates. Arab Commission for Human Rights said that in the context of recurrent humanitarian crises, women, children and refugees were often the victims of double or even triple marginalization, asking the panel to enumerate good practices concerning poverty related to disabilities, as well as recommendations of the panel to the World Humanitarian Summit. United Nations Children’s Fund said that the voices of children with disabilities were largely silent in critical decisions affecting their lives, because adults due to prejudice and negative attitudes had low expectations of them. The Special Rapporteur was commended for highlighting the invisibility and exclusion of children with disabilities.

Philippines listed national measures undertaken in the spirit of promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities, adding that as a country which experienced natural disasters every year, preparation was proactively undertaken for emergencies, which included the particular needs of those in the most vulnerable situations. Iran said that nationally, family solidarity played a pivotal role in disaster management, adding that family members never left behind those with special needs. Those who risked their lives for persons with disabilities and older persons were praised and adored by their communities and the whole society. Portugal expressed particular concern with the realization of the rights of persons with mental disorders and psycho-social disabilities, and asked panellists for their views on what a human rights-based approach would need to encompass in order to address the specific needs of those persons in situations of risk and to ensure their inherent dignity.

Spain stated that there was no doubt that the paradigm shift of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, based on the social model of disability, permeated policies and actions of States in order to deal with situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies. Sudan pledged to take all the necessary measures to ensure the rights of persons in situations of risk and emergencies. South Africa stressed that emergency policies and decisions should reflect the views and needs of persons with disabilities. International cooperation and assistance remained crucial to effectively address these issues. Bulgaria said it undertook sustained and coordinated measures for creating opportunities and improving the well-being of persons with disabilities, with a special focus on children and youth. Australia strongly advocated for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all humanitarian action, in line with States’ obligations under the Convention, as well as its inclusion in humanitarian action at the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. Indonesia said the Government had been strengthening its policy and capacity in the management of disaster, including reducing the numbers of affected people and protecting their economic and social life.

Venezuela said it was timely to tackle the situation of persons with disabilities during humanitarian and other disasters. Venezuela had promoted campaigns and workshops for persons with disabilities with information about preventive measures and other initiatives in this direction. Saudi Arabia said it gave great care to ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities and had initiated numerous measures in this direction, including public transportation at low prices, providing daily and home care as well as assistive technical and medical devises, providing privileges for housing and education, and obliging banks to provide persons with disabilities with sign language interpreters. Libya stressed the importance of effectively implementing Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and taking steps to ensure the safety of persons with disabilities, including in armed conflict. The humanitarian response had to take into account principles of non-discrimination as well as empowering persons with disabilities, promoting international cooperation and sharing best practices.

Estonia was committed to improving the prevention of accidents and protecting persons with disabilities in situations of risk and emergency. Some of the best practices ensuring the safety of persons with disability were enabling text messaging with the police, emergency buttons, video materials concerning fire safety, and training to rescuers. Brazil said it was crucial to foster cooperation networks and dialogue on good practices for disaster risk reduction and highlighted the Sendai Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, especially with reference to the rights of persons with disabilities. The new law on the Inclusion of Persons with Disability adopted in Brazil in 2015 entitled persons with disabilities to priority attention in all circumstances. Ecuador said the discussion on Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in situations of emergency was necessary. Greater protection to persons with disabilities in such times needed to be provided as these were a vulnerable category. Situations of risk in humanitarian emergencies had to be seen from a wider viewpoint.

Concluding Remarks

CATALINA DEVANDAS AGUILAR, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, said it was crucial that all action was based on the Convention, in particular with respect to the principle of non-discrimination. Those with psycho-social disabilities needed to be allowed to participate. The gender issue was also important in considering disability. Progress had been made in order to protect women with disabilities from violence. However, there was a need to develop and adopt global standards and guidelines for the inclusion of disability in humanitarian action. Coordination and global approach were crucial.
DIANE KINGSTON, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, responded to questions about barriers to the implementation of Article 11 of the Convention. Those were attitudinal, information and communication barriers, as well as the lack of universal design, budget and resources. The paramount challenge was the failure to actively involve persons with disabilities in emergency management and preparedness. It was crucial to ensure access of persons with psycho-social disabilities to all services. They should never be detained on the basis of their disability.

KIRSTIN LANGE, Senior Disability Advisor of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), stressed the importance of strengthening persons with disabilities in situations of armed conflict. She gave an example of the work that UNHCR was doing with the Government of Finland on capacity building for refugees with disabilities. All relevant actors were brought together: States, international organizations, and organizations of persons with disabilities. As for the implementation gaps of Article 11 of the Convention, the key challenge was communication with the affected populations. There should be access to feedback mechanisms, and to strengthened accountability to the affected population. The diversity among persons with disabilities should be taken into account in that regard.

SETAREKI MACANAWAI, Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Disability Forum, speaking about the implementation gaps of Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, noted that it would be useful for States and other relevant stakeholders to consider other articles of the Convention. For example, the issue of accessibility of buildings, enforcement and compliance of standards, and full participation of persons with disabilities in designing physical infrastructure. Humanitarian agencies should ensure that they consulted with persons with disabilities. He also thanked the Council for having given a voice to the Global South in the discussion.

MYROSLAVA TATARYN, Regional Inclusion Adviser at Handicap International, shared her enthusiasm for the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit and the creation of a charter on inclusive responses to humanitarian situations. The charter should contain guidelines for the implementation and monitoring of humanitarian programmes. She expressed hope that it would include disability markers for donors in order to overcome some of the financial challenges.

CHOI KYONGLIM, President of the Human Rights Council, said that there was a need for an inclusive approach to engaging persons with disabilities in all phases of designing, implementing and monitoring of the services for persons with disabilities. There was also a need for internationally agreed guidelines that would facilitate the implementation of enhanced policies at the national level. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development should include the disability dimension. All those steps should lead to the full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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