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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.
- Body
- 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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Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 58
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- In some contexts, because of stereotypical views of the value of disabled female children and the lack of support available to parents with children with disabilities, parents may see trafficking of their disabled daughter as their only economic option. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports indicate that in certain countries in the Asia-Pacific region proprietors of brothels have specifically sought out deaf girl children and adolescents, with the idea that such young people will be less able to communicate their distress or find their way back to their homes. One report notes that the proportion of child prostitutes who had mild developmental disabilities was six times greater than what might be expected from the incidence in the general population.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2012
- 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.
- Body
- 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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