Women and girls with disabilities 2016, para. 62b ii
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- [In the light of the normative content and obligations outlined above, State parties should take the following steps to ensure the full implementation of article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, providing adequate resources in this regard:] Take all appropriate measures to ensure the development, advancement and empowerment of women with disabilities through, inter alia: The adoption of affirmative action measures for the development, advancement and empowerment of women with disabilities, in consultation with organizations of women with disabilities, aiming to immediately address inequalities and to ensure that women with disabilities have equality of opportunity with others. Such measures should be adopted particularly regarding access to justice, the elimination of violence, respect for home and the family, sexual health and reproductive rights, health, education, employment, and social protection. States parties should ensure that public and private services and facilities used by women with disabilities are fully accessible in compliance with article 9 and in line with General comment on article 9, and that public and private service providers are trained and educated to provide appropriate attention, support and assistance to women with disabilities, on applicable human rights standards, and on identifying and combating discriminatory norms and values; the adoption of effective measures to provide women with disabilities access to the support they may require to exercise their legal capacity, in line with General comment on article 12, to give their free and informed consent and to take decisions about their own lives.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- CRPD General Comment No. 3, Women and girls with disabilities (2016), para. 62b ii.
- Paragraph number
- 62b ii
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