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(b)
Ensure that the participation of persons with disabilities, particularly
women with disabilities, in political life and public administration is promoted, they can
effectively hold office and perform all public functions at all levels of government, by
facilitating the use of assistive and new technologies, and providing personal assistants.
Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport (art. 30)
63.

The Committee is concerned about:
(a)

Limited accessibility at tourist locations and entertainment facilities;

(b)
Barriers to access television programs, cultural activities, and electronic
publications;
(c)
Restrictions on participation in sporting events, in particular, as regards
persons who are deaf, hard of hearing or deafblind.
64.

The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a)
Enhance efforts to ensure accessibility at tourist locations and
entertainment facilities, including those of a small scale;
(b)
Secure the access to television programs and cultural activities in
accessible formats, and strengthen measures to implement the Marrakesh Treaty to
increase the availability of accessible published works;
(c)
Ensure the access to sport activities for all persons with disabilities,
including the provision of reasonable accommodation.

C. Specific obligations (arts. 31–33)
Statistics and data collection (art. 31)
65.
The Committee notes with concern the:
(a)
Lack of comprehensive disaggregated database on persons with disabilities,
covering all areas of life;
(b)
Overlook of persons with disabilities in residential institutions and psychiatric
hospitals in surveys conducted.
66.
Recalling the Washington Group Short Set of Questions on Disability and the
Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development policy marker on the inclusion and empowerment of persons with
disabilities, the Committee recommends that the State party develop data collection
system and data base on persons with disabilities at all areas of life and disaggregated
by a range of factors, such as age, sex, type of impairment, type of support they require,
sexual orientation and gender identity, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, place of
residence, including residential institutions and psychiatric hospitals.
International cooperation (art. 32)
67.
While noting the Japan International Cooperation Agency Thematic Guidelines on
Disability and Development (2015), the Committee is concerned that mainstreaming of
disability in international cooperation projects is not fully applied, and related strategies and
programmes are not developed in close consultation with organizations of persons with
disabilities under the human rights model to disability.
68.

The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a)
Mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in its implementation
and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels, in close
consultation and active involvement of organizations of persons with disabilities;
(b)
Strengthen its cooperation for the implementation of the Asian and Pacific
Decade of Persons with Disabilities 2013-2022 and the Incheon Strategy to “Make the
Right Real” for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific.

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