Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 77
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Two crucial aspects of human rights, legal capacity and access to justice, are incorporated in both Conventions, largely drawing on the principles of autonomy or self-determination. In the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, articles 12 and 13 address those issues, and in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women article 15 addresses equality before the law. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities incorporates both concepts of capacity to be a person before the law and legal capacity to act.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences