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• The Commission on Human Rights adopts a new resolution on human rights and disability (20 April 2004)
  
  
• The seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee concludes its work. The eighth session of the Ad Hoc Committee will continue working on the draft convention on the basis of a working text .
  
  
• The Human Rights Commission met from 14 March to 22 April 2005. During its session, it adopted a resolution on "Human rights of persons with disabilities" (E/CN.4/RES/2005/65) urging governments to prevent and prohibit all forms of discrimination against persons with disabilities. 

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION ON THE “HUMAN RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES”

On 20 April 2004, the Commission on Human Rights has adopted a new resolution on the human rights of persons with disabilities. The resolution was introduced by Sweden and was adopted without a vote.

In this resolution, the Commission:

·     urged Governments to take active measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by persons with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, to prevent and prohibit all forms of discrimination against persons with disabilities, and to ensure equal opportunities for their full participation in all spheres of life;

·     called upon the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to report to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-first session on progress in the implementation of the recommendations contained in the study on human rights and disability presented at the fifty-eighth session of the Commission and on the achievement of the objectives set forth in the programme of work of the Office in relation to the human rights of persons with disabilities;

·     encouraged Member States and observers to participate actively in the Ad Hoc Committee, in order to present to the General Assembly, as a matter of priority, a draft text of a convention;

·     urged Member States, observers, civil society and the private sector to continue to contribute to the voluntary fund established by the General Assembly to support the participation of non-governmental organizations and experts from developing countries, in particular from the least developed countries, in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee;

·     urged Governments to address fully the question of the human rights of persons with disabilities in complying with their reporting obligations under the relevant United Nations human rights instruments, and welcomed the efforts of those Governments who have begun to do so.