Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 45
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Women with disabilities face particular barriers in accessing health care for reasons of cost, distance, discriminatory attitudes, and lack of physical access or information. This seriously limits their access to immunization, reproductive health care and cancer screening. In some settings women with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, are subjected to forced sterilization or termination of pregnancy or to long-term contraception, with relatives or doctors taking decisions on their behalf without their informed consent, in violation of their right to exercise legal capacity guaranteed under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
Type de document
Special Procedures' report
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Equality & Inclusion
Health
Personnes concernées
Persons with disabilities
Women
Année
2016
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
WG Discrimination Against Women, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/44, para. 45.