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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
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