Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 5
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There are more than one billion people with disabilities in the world today, and the average global disability prevalence rate is estimated to be 15.6 per cent. Persons with disabilities experience great social disadvantages worldwide, such as poverty; discriminatory laws and practices; environmental and information barriers; poor education, health and employment; and increased expenditures related to the extra cost of living with a disability (see A/70/297, paras. 25-32, and A/71/314, paras. 13-16).
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities