In the present report the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, highlights the moral agency of persons with disabilities in rebuilding broken societies in the post-conflict context.

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 41/21, in which the Council decided to hold a panel discussion on promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of climate change during its forty-fourth session. The Council also requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a summary report on the panel discussion to the Council at its forty-sixth session. The present report provides a summary of the panel discussion on human rights and climate change that was held on 8 July 2020.