HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS
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The UN system implements a coherent and
human rights-based response to inequality
and discrimination, including intersecting and
multiple forms of discrimination.
The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities continued to actively promote
a process to strengthen UN system-wide accessibility, inclusion and mainstreaming of the
rights of persons with disabilities. The findings of the 2018 baseline review of UN action to
mainstream accessibility and disability inclusion informed the development of the UN Disability
Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS), adopted in 2019. The Special Rapporteur engaged directly with the
Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-General and collaborated with the IASG using
CRPD as a reference point, which led to the adoption and launch of the UNDIS, in June. UN
Human Rights contributed to the substance of the UNDIS.
ADDITIONAL RESULTS FROM OTHER PILLARS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE PEACE AND SECURITY PILLAR:
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Justice systems investigate and prosecute
gender-related crimes more effectively.
With the support of UN Human Rights, protection measures were put in place for victims of
sexual violence participating in the Walikale case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
which enabled more than 20 victims to safely testify in court. In addition, UN Human Rights
coordinated the provision of individual protection measures for 11 victims of sexual and genderbased violence in the Central African Republic. These measures enabled victims to participate
in a public hearing judicial proceedings, in Bangui, from 11 to 15 March.
Top social media post
in 2019 highlighted
the discriminatory
nature of India’s
new Citizenship
(Amendment) Act.
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