Women and girls with disabilities 2016, para. 4
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- Terminology used in this general comment includes: a. ‘Women with disabilities’ refers to all adult women, girls and adolescents. b. Sex and gender: Where sex refers to biological differences and gender refers to the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine. c. Multiple discrimination is a situation where a person can experience discrimination on two or several grounds, in the sense that discrimination is compounded or aggravated . Intersectional discrimination refers to a situation where several grounds operate and interact with each other at the same time in such a way that they are inseparable . Grounds for discrimination include, but are not limited to: age, disability, ethnic, indigenous, national or social origin, gender identity, political or other opinion, race, refugee, migrant or asylum status, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2016
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- CRPD General Comment No. 3, Women and girls with disabilities (2016), para. 4.
- Paragraph number
- 4
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