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Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article
6 – Women with Disabilities
1. States Parties recognize that
women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discriminations, and
in this regard shall take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by
them of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the full
development, advancement and empowerment of women, for the purpose of
guaranteeing them the exercise and enjoyment of the human rights and
fundamental freedoms set out in the present Convention.
Other references to women and gender issues are found in the following articles:
Article 8 – Awareness-raising (paragraph b)
Article 16 – Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse (paragraphs 1,2,4,5)
Article 25 – Health (chapeau and paragraph a)
Article 28 - Adequate standard of living and social protection (paragraph 2b)
Article 34 – Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (paragraph 4)
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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the States Parties.
All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially within two years of accepting the Convention and thereafter every four years. The Committee examines each report and shall make such suggestions and general recommendations on the report as it may consider appropriate and shall forward these to the State Party concerned.
The
Optional Protocol to the Convention gives the Committee competence to examine
individual complaints with regard to alleged violations of the Convention by
States parties to the Protocol.
The
Committee shall meet in
From
Exclusion to Equality
Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Handbook was jointly prepared by the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Release date: October, 2007
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