CRPD/C/LTU/CO/1 and participation for persons with disabilities, as set out in targets 11.2 and 11.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals. 61. The Committee is concerned that the State party, despite having expressed the will to ratify, pending collective ratification by the European Union, the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled, has not yet done so. 62. The Committee recommends that the State party take all the measures necessary to ensure unilateral ratification and implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty without further delay. C. Specific obligations (arts. 31-33) Statistics and data collection (art. 31) 63. The Committee is concerned that: (a) There is a lack of disaggregated and reliable statistical data regarding persons with disabilities across all sectors; (b) The statistical data relating to persons with disabilities collected by the State party fail to take into account the diversity of persons with disabilities, thereby rendering it impossible to evaluate the impact of each policy on persons with disabilities. 64. The Committee recommends that the State party, in collaboration with organizations of persons with disabilities, systematize the collection, analysis and dissemination of data, disaggregated by sex, age, disability, residence, geographic area and types of support received, in relation to all sectors, taking note of target 17.18 of the Sustainable Development Goals. International cooperation (art. 32) 65. The Committee is concerned that disability rights have not been mainstreamed in the national, regional and global implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including in designing international development assistance. 66. The Committee recommends that the rights of persons with disabilities be mainstreamed in the national implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and that all related processes, including those for defining international development assistance priorities, are undertaken in close cooperation with and with the involvement of organizations of persons with disabilities. National implementation and monitoring (art. 33) 67. The Committee is concerned that: (a) The Ministry of Social Security and Labour, which is in charge of coordinating implementation of the Convention, lacks the legal mandate, authority and human and financial resources to influence other ministries and State institutions and to coordinate effective implementation the Convention, and that there is no strong focal point within each ministry responsible for implementing the Convention; (b) The Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson and the Council for the Affairs of the Disabled, which have been appointed to function as the State party’s independent monitoring mechanisms, are not in full compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the 11

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