Human Rights Council

Sixty-second session

15 June–8 July 2026

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 6 July 2026

6 2 / 7. Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities

The Human Rights Council,

Guided bythe purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other relevant human rights instruments,

Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedure Mandate Holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that mandate holders shall discharge their duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,

Recalling also its resolutions 26/20 of 27 June 2014, 35/6 of 22 June 2017, 44/10 of 16 July 2020 and 53/14 of 13 July 2023,

1.Reaffirms the obligation of States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against persons with disabilities and to respect, protect and fulfil their human rights;

2. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities;

3.Decides to extend the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities for a further period of three years, to enable the mandate holder to continue to work in accordance with the mandate established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 53/14;

4.Calls upon all States to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in the performance of his or her mandate, including by providing all necessary information requested, to give serious consideration to responding favourably to requests to visit their countries, and to consider the conclusions and appropriate follow-up, and implementing the recommendations made by the mandate holder in his or her reports;

5.Encourages all relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, regional organizations working in the field of human rights, national human rights institutions, national independent monitoring frameworks, academia, the private sector, donors and development agencies, to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur to enable the mandate holder to fulfil his or her mandate;

6.Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto as a matter of priority;

7.Requests the Special Rapporteur to present an annual report to the Human Rights Council and to present a report to the General Assembly at its eighty-first and eighty-third sessions, in accessible formats, including Braille and easy-to-read reports and International Sign interpretation and closed captioning, during the presentation of the reports, and in accordance with their respective programmes of work;

8.Requests the Secretary-General to bring the reports of the Special Rapporteur to the attention of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Conference of States Parties, the Commission for Social Development and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility for their information and to avoid unnecessary duplication;

9.Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the human, technical and financial resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of his or her mandate.

31st meeting

6 July 2026

[Adopted without a vote.]