A/DEC/56/474 - 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 - UN Documents: Gathering a body of global agreements

United Nations		A/DEC/56/474

	General Assembly		23 July 2002

	Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 108 56/474. 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
		At its l09th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2002, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to make, as needed and within existing resources, reasonable efforts to facilitate the participation of 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 could include but were not limited to: The facilitation of entry into United Nations premises by individuals serving as guides, personal assistants or interpreters for persons with disabilities; The holding of meetings in those United Nations conference rooms that were better equipped to facilitate the participation of persons with mobility-related and other physical disabilities; The adoption of a practice whereby documents distributed in the course of one meeting or shortly in advance of a meeting would 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; 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./1
		Note 1/ A/56/L.83.

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