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Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 53
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- Discrimination in access to services and programmes during incarceration is a reality for most women with disabilities. They may face difficulties in accessing these because such programmes fail to account for their disabilities; or they may be explicitly denied the ability to participate in programmes, which are largely tailored to prisoners without disabilities. Furthermore, women with disabilities who are able to participate in work programmes are often paid lower wages for their work.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 53
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- Often, when restitution of the infringed rights or lost good is not possible, reparations will try to compensate victims. Besides avoiding outright discrimination, reparations programmes that provide economic compensation to women should consider the formal and informal obstacles that different groups of women face in accessing and keeping money. These include difficulties in having a bank account and formal and informal pressure, including security threats, reprisal or ostracism by the family and the community.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 38
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- Social and economic exclusion works as a process as well as an outcome for violence against women, and can produce and contextualize "social relations and organizational barriers that block the attainment of livelihoods, human development and [equality]." For instance, trade, development and economic policies which target areas outside of where marginalized women reside lead to uneven development and economic opportunities. Such exclusion can create or sustain poverty and inequality, and can restrict participation, thereby increasing vulnerability to and risk of violence against women.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 29
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- Additionally, women's lack of and/or unequal access to resources may be structurally maintained by institutional factors such as differential inheritance, land tenure and property ownership practices. A woman's inability to own her own property or land may result from structural factors that contribute to her experiences of interpersonal violence. If a woman is dependent on her spouse or family network for her economic well-being, she is at greater risk of vulnerability to violence and also of an inability to escape from harm.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 35
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- Intimate partner violence outside of the workplace also has a profound impact on the fulfilment of women's right to work. Domestic violence may also occur at work, where the workplace becomes a site of violence and associated behaviours. Partners seeking to coerce and control their female partners or ex-partners may stalk them at or around their workplaces and target them at work to increase their control over them and to compromise women's economic independence. Such violence increases absenteeism and reduces productivity and employee morale. Evidence indicates that women with a history of intimate partner violence have a more disrupted work history, are consequently on lower personal incomes, have to change jobs more often and are employed in higher numbers in casual and part-time work than women who have not experienced violence.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 23
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- Rural women generally have less access to resources, training and skill development opportunities - due to high levels of illiteracy, the prevalence of negative stereotypes and their overall socioeconomic status. The final report of a workshop on women and disability conducted by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in 2003 indicates that more than 80 per cent of women with disabilities in rural areas in Asia and the Pacific have no independent means of livelihood and are thus dependent on others for their economic survival. Inaccessible environments and lack of services, and lack of information and awareness, education, income and contact further exacerbate the situation, resulting in further isolation and invisibility. In the general statement adopted at its fiftieth session on 19 October 2011, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women noted that violence against women, including trafficking in women, sexual exploitation and forced labour, is often linked to poverty and lack of opportunities in rural areas.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 73
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- In many settings, for a tort claim to be initiated, financial means and a defendant who has money to pay for the damage are necessary. Other obstacles that women encounter when trying to obtain damages against perpetrators through courts include: statutes of limitations; inter-spousal and intrafamilial tort immunity rules; overly strict or inadequate rules and interpretations of the causality link in the assessment of harms; and inadequate evidence standards and procedures for quantifying damages which may have a negative disparate impact on women (such as limiting compensation to economic loss, setting caps on non-economic loss or measuring loss solely or primarily based on the loss of future earning capacity measured through statistical evaluation). Insurance schemes may not be effective either because basic coverage is usually restricted to compensatory damages - which often do not cover intentional torts or exempt claims against spouses - or because claims have to be brought during the term of the policy.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 57
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- Reintegration and rehabilitation may also require adopting women-friendly forms of distribution of services and creating opportunities that were previously denied to victims, often on the grounds of sex, including through meaningful employment, education, skill training, access to land titles and initiatives such as microcredit to motivate economic entrepreneurship. Because the experience of conflict or political repression leads many women to become publicly and politically active for the first time in their lives, encouraging this agency, including by promoting women's associations or political parties, could also be a way of rehabilitating women in a way that does not return them exclusively to their homes and family lives.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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