[misc.handicap] disabled women UN

tzippy@dasys1.uucp (Tzipporah BenAvraham) (05/31/90)

Index Number: 8522

RESOLUTION OF THE UN WOMEN'S WORLD CONFERENCE
NAIROBI KENYA 1987
 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DISABLED
WOMEN OF ALL AGES
 
(document A/CONF. 116/C.2/L.8)
 
The World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements
of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development
and Peace.
 
RECALLING General Assembly resolution 3447 (xxx) of December
1975, by which it proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights
of Disabled Persons.
 
RECALLING General Assembly resolution 31/123 of 16 December 1976,
by which it proclaimed the year 1981 International Year of Disabled
Persons,
 
RECALLING General Assembly resolution 34/154 of 17 December 1979,
of the International Year of Disabled Persons with the theme of full
participation and equality.
 
RECALLING resolution 2 adopted by the World Conference of the 
United Nations Decade for Women, held at Copenhagen in 1980, which
called for the improvement of situations of disabled of all ages.
 
RECALLING General Assembly resolution 37/52 of 3 December 1982,
by which it adopted the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled
Persons, and 37/53 of 3 December 1982, by which it proclaimed the period
1983-1992 United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons as a long-term plan
of action.
 
NOTING WITH APPRECIATION the activities of Governments, United
Nations organizations, the specilaized agencies and non-governmental
organizations in connection with the implementation of the World 
Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons.
 
RECOGNIZING that disabled women of all ages constitute a
significant number of disabled persons and encounter particular 
difficulties in developing their individual abilities and skills as
a consequence of their mental, physical or sensory impairment which 
affects their responsibilities and their rights to enjoy a decent
life.
 
1. APPEALS to all governments to contribute to the implemen-
tation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons 
and to explicity take into consideration, through the implementation 
of this Programme at the national level, the special needs of disabled 
women in order to facilitate their practical participation in daily 
life and to provide them with recreational activities.
 
2. URGES all states give special attention to the training
programmes for the habilitation and rehabilitation of disabled 
women in order to give them more and better opportunities to 
participate in all aspects of life.
 
3. REQUESTS  the specialized agencies, in particular the World
Health Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific 
and and Cultural Organization and the International Labor
Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization,
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and 
other United Nations bodies and programmes concerned to take into 
consideration in their activities and programmes the needs of 
disabled women of all ages and the necessity to improve their 
condition, through preventive and rehabilitation measures, and 
requests them to co-ordinate their activities in this area.
 
4. DECIDES that, in implementing the Forward-looking Strategies
for the Advancement of Women for the period 1986 to the year 2000, 
the needs of disabled women of all ages should be taken fully into 
consideration at the international, regional and national levels.