Text of Convention
![handle is hein.journals/intlm46 and id is 457 raw text is: UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS
WITH DISABILITIES*
[December 13, 2006]
+Cite as 46 ILM 443 (2007)+
United Nations
General Assembly A/61/611
Distr.: General
6 December 2006
Sixty-first session
Item 67 (b)
Human rights questions: human rights questions, including
alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Final report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and
Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to submit to the General Assembly, pursuant to General Assembly resolution
60/232, the final report 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 on its eighth session.
1. The present report complements the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
on its eighth session (A/AC.256/2006/4 and Add. 1). During that session, at its 20th meeting, on 25 August 2006,
the Committee had adopted the draft Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including a draft
Optional Protocol, as a whole, without a vote.1
2. At the same meeting, the Committee had decided to establish an open-ended drafting group tasked with
ensuring the uniformity of terminology throughout the draft Convention and draft Optional Protocol; harmonizing
the .versions in the six official languages of the United Nations; and reporting on the results of its work to the
Committee at a resumed eighth session to be held in time to enable the Committee to forward the finalized draft
Convention and draft Optional Protocol to the General Assembly before the end of its sixty-first session. The
Committee had requested the Secretary-General to provide adequate secretariat services to the drafting group,
within existing resources.
3. At its 21st meeting, on 5 December 2006, the Committee heard an oral report by the Chairman of the open-
ended drafting group, Stefan Barriga (Liechtenstein), on the results of its work. The drafting group had held nine
meetings, from 6 September to 17 November 2006. At its ninth meeting, on 17 November, the drafting group had
decided to forward to the Committee the results of its work as reflected in the annex to the present report.
4. At its 22nd meeting, on 5 December 2006, the Committee decided to delete the footnote to article 12 of the
draft Convention.
5. At the same meeting, the representative of Iraq, in his capacity as Chair of the Arab Group for the month
of December 2006 (on behalf of Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic,
Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen), read out a letter dated 5 December 2006 addressed to the Chairman
of the Committee (A/AC.265/2006/5). The representative of Finland, in his capacity as Chair of the European
* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text appearing at the United Nations website (visited March 16,
2007) <http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahcfinalrepe.htmicglr.org>.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/intlm46&div=39&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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