Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The Committee at its seventh session in April 2012 decided to devote its half day of general discussion (DGD), on 17 April 2013, to the rights of women and girls with disabilities.

This decision stemmed from the Committee’s review of the first national reports submitted since the beginning of its work and the scarcity of information on the situation of women and girls with disabilities in those reports. Indeed, the Committee is concerned by the multiple forms of discrimination experienced by women and girls with disabilities which hinder their meaningful participation on an equal basis with other individuals in all spheres of life.

Documentation

• Statement on Women and Girls with Disabilities
  العربية | 中文 | English | Français | Русский | Español
• Final Programme
  English

Inputs received

• Netzwerk Artikel 3
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
• Advocacy for Inclusion
• Center for Women Policy Studies (International Network of Women with Disabilities)
• National Union of Women with Disabilities Uganda (NUWODU)
• Bond for International Development
• WaterAid
• World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) (Word) (PDF)
• Advocacy for Inclusion
• Women Enabled
• Mujeres Discapacidad Visual-Bogota, Colombia
• Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
• Bulgaria Gender Research Foundation (BGRF)
• Nepal Disabled Women Association (NDWA)
• Parigual and Disability Council-In English and Español
• UK CEDAW Working Group
• World Blind Union
• Comisión de Damas Invidentes del Perú
• Comisión de la Mujer con Discapacidad Visual de Costa Rica
• World Federation of the Deaf
• International Network of Women with Disabilities (INWWD)
• Christian Blind Mission (CBM) (Word) (PDF)
• Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP) (Word) (PDF)
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Equality and Human Rights Commission
• IWDA (International Women's Development Agency)-Australia
• PCCRPD (Philippine Coalition on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) and PAHRA (Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates)
• DAWN/RAFH (DisAbled Women's Network/Réseau d'Action des Femmes Handicapées-Canada
• Disability Rights International & MDRI (Mental Disability Rights Initiative)-Serbia
• ISJ (Institute for Social Justice)-Pakistan
• IDLO (International Development Law Organization)
• CIMUNIDIS (Circulo Emancipador de Mujeres y niñas con Discapacidad de Chile)
  English | Français | Español
• IDA (International Disability Alliance) and Submission on Indigenous Women and Girls with Disabilities
• Human Rights Watch
• Comité Español de representantes de personas con discapacidad (CERMI)

Presentations by Panellists at the Day of General Discussion

Session 1: Intersectionality of gender and disability

• Dagmar Schumacher UN Women
• Patricia Schulz CEDAW-Intersectionality of gender and disability
• Victoria Lee IDA-Intersections of Discrimination
• Juan Jose Gomez Camacho - Ambassador of Mexico

Session 2: Violence against women and girls with disabilities

Session 3: Sexual and reproductive rights and women and girls with disabilities

• Suzanne Reier WHO-Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Women and Girls with Disabilities