A/HRC/RES/28/4 Emphasizing that access to physical environment, transportation, information and communications, including information and communications technology, and other services and facilities provided to public are a key to independent, autonomous living and equal participation in society for persons with disabilities, Welcoming the work undertaken by the task force on secretariat services, accessibility for persons with disabilities and use of information technology of the Human Rights Council, and encouraging it to report orally to the Council on the progress made on the full implementation of the recommendations contained in its reports1 and its future work, Deeply concerned at the negative impact of laws or practices on the rights of persons with disabilities that deprive them of their legal capacity or allow for their forced institutionalization on the basis of a real or perceived disability, Deeply concerned also that girls and women of all ages with disabilities are subject to multiple, aggravated or intersecting forms of discrimination, and bearing in mind the particular risk of segregation, violence and abuse against women and girls with disabilities, Noting the ongoing preparations for the post-2015 development agenda and its consideration of persons with disabilities in both the report of the Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals2 and the report of the SecretaryGeneral entitled “A life of dignity for all: accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and advancing the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015”,3 Recalling the high-level meeting of the General Assembly held on 23 September 2013 on disability and development and its outcome document, 4 Welcoming the appointment of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, and her report,5 1. Welcomes the fact that, to date, 159 States have signed and 151 States and one regional integration organization have ratified or acceded to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and that 92 States have signed and 85 States have ratified or acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention, and calls upon those States and regional integration organizations that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention and the Optional Protocol to consider doing so as a matter of priority; 2. Encourages States that have ratified the Convention and have submitted one or more reservations to it to initiate a process to review regularly the effect and continued relevance of such reservations, and to consider the possibility of withdrawing them; 3. Welcomes the thematic study on the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 6 and calls upon all stakeholders to consider its findings and recommendations with a view to their implementation, where appropriate; 4. Calls upon States that are not yet party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 A/HRC/21/CRP.1, A/HRC/23/CRP.2. A/68/970. A/68/202. General Assembly resolution 68/3 A/HRC/28/58. A/HRC/28/37.