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WWDA - Women with Disabilities
Australia
AUSTRALIA - EFFECTIVENESS OF THE
NATIONAL DISABILITY STRATEGY IN IMPROVING THE LIVES OF WOMEN & GIRLS WITH
DISABILITIES IN AUSTRALIA
This WWDA (Women
with Disabiities Australia) Submission to the COAG (Council of Australian
Governments), assesses whether, if and how the NDS (National Disability
Strategy) is promoting, protecting, respecting and fulfilling the human
rights of women and girls with disabilities in Australia. Importantly, this
assessment from WWDA includes the provision of a critical analysis of where the
NDS appears to be failing women and girls with disabilities. This Submission
from WWDA is critically important given that to date, despite Australias
international human rights obligations in relation to gender equality - all
aspects of the NDS are un-gendered. WWDAs Submission sends a strong and urgent
message to all Governments that public policy which treats people with
disabilities as a homogenous group only serves to perpetuate the stereotype of
people with disabilities as asexual, genderless human beings, and gives rise to
a policy, program and service vacuum whereby the human rights of women and
girls with disabilities remain violated, denied, ignored and trivialized.
Direct Link to Full 84-Page WWDA
2014 Report:
