UNB, Dhaka :
Women and girls with disabilities need empowerment, not pity, UN experts said on Tuesday urging all the States to act accordingly.
States too often fail to uphold their obligations with regard to women and girls with disabilities, treating them or allowing them to be treated as helpless objects of pity, subjected to hostility and exclusion, instead of empowering them to enjoy their fundamental human rights and freedoms, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has said. “Policies for women have traditionally made disability invisible, and disabilities policies have overlooked gender.
But if you are a woman or a girl with disabilities, you face discrimination and barriers because you are female, because you are disabled, and because you are female and disabled,” Committee member Theresia Degener was quoted as saying in a statement received here from Geneva. CRPD member Diane Kingston said their recommendations cover practical steps, such as planning public services that work for women with disabilities, and involving them in the design of products so they can use them.
Women and girls with disabilities need empowerment, not pity, UN experts said on Tuesday urging all the States to act accordingly.
States too often fail to uphold their obligations with regard to women and girls with disabilities, treating them or allowing them to be treated as helpless objects of pity, subjected to hostility and exclusion, instead of empowering them to enjoy their fundamental human rights and freedoms, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has said. “Policies for women have traditionally made disability invisible, and disabilities policies have overlooked gender.
But if you are a woman or a girl with disabilities, you face discrimination and barriers because you are female, because you are disabled, and because you are female and disabled,” Committee member Theresia Degener was quoted as saying in a statement received here from Geneva. CRPD member Diane Kingston said their recommendations cover practical steps, such as planning public services that work for women with disabilities, and involving them in the design of products so they can use them.
