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AUSTRALIA - ASSESSING THE SITUATION OF WOMEN WITH
DISABILITIES:A HUMAN RIGHTSAPPROACH - WWDA
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Women With Disabilities
Australia (WWDA) has recently released a Policy Paper entitled 'Assessing
the situation of women with disabilities in Australia: A human rights approach'.
This Paper uses a human rights framework to document the range of data,
research and information needed in order to give a comprehensive assessment of
the situation of women with disabilities in Australia. The need for this work
to occur has long been identified by women with disabilities themselves, and
most recently, identified by the Convention on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) monitoring committee as an area warranting
urgent and immediate attention by the Australian Government.
WWDA’s paper provides
the context for this work by giving an overview of the intersection of gender
and disability, as well as a brief background to the human rights imperative.
Using key articles from the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD), the paper then prescribes the key quantitative and
qualitative data and research required under each article, and links this to
Australia's international human rights obligations and domestic policy context.
WWDA’s Policy Paper urges the Australian Government to act immediately to
commission and adequately resource a comprehensive assessment and analysis of
the situation of women and girls with disabilities in Australia.
The Paper provides in
detail, in an Appendix, the international human rights obligations in relation
to each of the issue areas covered in the paper. This section includes for
example, information drawn from the international human rights treaties to
which Australia is a party, the General Comments supporting each of these
treaties, as well as detailed information from a number of other relevant human
rights instruments.
Please
contact WWDA at wwda@wwda.org.au if
you would like a copy of the Paper emailed to you.
Alternatively,
the Paper can be downloaded from WWDA’s website in either PDF format [2.3MB] or
Word format [2.5MB] at: http://www.wwda.org.au/subs2011.htm
Kind Regards
Carolyn
Frohmader
Carolyn Frohmader
Executive Director
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
PO Box 605, Rosny Park TAS 7018
Australia
Ph: +61 3 62448288 Fax: +61 3 62448255
Mobile: 0438 535 123
Email: wwda@wwda.org.au
Email: carolyn@wwda.org.au
Web: www.wwda.org.au