Agenda item 6: Consideration of a draft resolution concerning a new Asian and Pacific decade on the rights of persons with disabilities for submission to the Commission at its sixty-eighth session (Bangkok, 17-23 May 2012)
Draft Resolution 68/xx
Asian and Pacific Make the Right Real Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022
Sponsored by: Republic of Korea
The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
PP1. Recalling the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons1, the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities2 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities3, a comprehensive framework to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities in which, persons with disabilities are recognized as holders of rights with dignity and autonomy rather than objects of charity, and their active participation is emphasized for the implementation of the Convention,
PP2. Further recalling previous General Assembly resolutions4 on internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level,
PP3. Emphasizing the importance of the bottom-up, comprehensive, multisectoral approach to effectively implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, especially with active involvement of persons with disabilities,
PP4. Appreciating the long-term commitment of members, associate members and other stakeholders including persons with disabilities of the Asian and Pacific region to promoting the rights of persons with disabilities through two consecutive regional decade initiatives by the Commission through its resolutions 48/3 of 23 April 1992, and 58/4 of 22 May 2002,
PP5. Recognizing the significance of the spirit of the previous regional decade initiatives, while noting that there still remain challenges to make substantive enhancement in the rights of persons with disabilities,
PP6. Cognizant that there has been much improvement in political and socioeconomic circumstances conducive to the enhancement of the human rights of persons with disabilities, and technological advances including information and communications technologies have become highly instrumental in fulfilling the rights of persons with disabilities,
PP7. Recalling the recommendation of the Committee on Social Development on its second session for the Commission, on its sixty-eighth session, to proclaim a new decade, 2013-2022, for promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, by coping with the remaining challenges as well as new issues caused by socioeconomic changes,
PP8. Reaffirming the significance of the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Final Review of the Implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012, to be hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea in Incheon from 29 October to 2 November 2012, which will conclude the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012, and adopt a strategic action framework for the Asian and Pacific Make the Right Real Decade of Persons with Disabilities,
PP9. Calling upon all members, associate members and other stakeholders including disabled persons' organizations to proactively participate in the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting,
OP1. Proclaims the Asian and Pacific Make the Right Real Decade of Persons with Disabilities, with a view to making substantive enhancement in the rights of persons with disabilities and contributing to the fulfillment of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Millennium Development Goals by implementing the strategic action framework for the Asian and Pacific Make the Right Real Decade of Persons with Disabilities;
OP2. Requests the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to consider and adopt the strategic action framework in its outcome document;
OP3. Calls upon the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to ensure that the strategic action framework is guided by the principles, inter alia:
(a) Reflect the general principles and obligations stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including individual autonomy and independence of persons with disabilities and disability-sensitive perspective in all legislation, policies and programmes;
(b) Respect the diversity of disability, including types and degree of disability and gender, in all legislation, policies and progarmmes for persons with disabilities;
(c) Strengthen the bottom-up approach to facilitate the participation of the grass-root disabled persons' organizations and individuals with various disabilities in implementing the strategic action framework;
OP4. Further requests the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting, in considering and adopting the strategic action framework, to note the significance of mechanisms, including a multi-donor trust fund to support its participatory and effective implementation, and indicators to monitor the implementing progress;
OP5. Decides to establish a multi-donor trust fund, namely the Make the Right Real Fund, which will be based in the Republic of Korea, founded on public-private partnership ensuring participatory and continuous resource mobilization from a variety of stakeholders, for the effective implementation of the Asian and Pacific Make the Right Real Decade of Persons with Disabilities strategic action framework in close collaboration with the ESCAP Commission;
OP6. Urges ESCAP members, associate members, United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, as well as other intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations including disabled persons' organizations and private enterprises, to support for the successful implementation of the strategic action framework including the Make the Right Real Fund;
OP7. Requests the Executive Secretary to report to the Commission on its sixty-ninth session on the implementing progress of the present resolution.