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The Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Kenya and India Matter!
By Shubha Nagesh, Mildred Omino, Seble Frehywot, Yianna Vovides, and Chulwoo Park, published on September 25, 2020. View Resource
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Growing outrage over clean chit given to Chief Justice in case of sexual harassment of hearing impaired woman
There is growing outrage on social media and on the streets over the clean chit given to the Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi... View Resource
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Sexual Harassment in Philosophy, Disability, and the Dream of a Common Language: A Response to Dowell and Sobel
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underMost mainstream philosophers and many white feminist philosophers probably don’t know that Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced and developed her idea of intersectionality in writing on... View Resource
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Violence and disabled women
A more inclusive and diverse understanding of sex is bringing queer theory together with a disability-rights discourse to legitimise what was previously considered ‘deviant’... View Resource
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Sexual assault of disabled women: Getting the law right
Simply increasing the punishment or shifting the burden of proof to the accused, without making sure that the testimony of the prosecutrix is taken... View Resource
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Not a ‘safe’ issue: Disabled women and sexual violence
Disability groups have not been part of the heated debates on making sexual offences gender-neutral or gender-specific. But making sexual assault gender-neutral for both... View Resource
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The women’s movement must do more for disabled women
Disabled women are crowded out in both the disability movement and the women’s movement, says Anita Ghai. Feminists, she says, have failed to recognise... View Resource
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Out of sight, out of mind
Even as the country acknowledges that the disabled must be integrated into the mainstream educational system, a study in Kolkata reveals that 50% of... View Resource
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Of Stigma and Sterilization: The Layered Stigmatization of Women With Disabilities
Categorized as Op-eds | Tagged underOver the millennia, society has remained preoccupied with the fertility of a woman. This bodes particularly ill for women with disabilities (WWD), for they... View Resource
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Criminal justice system & young girls/women with disabilities – My Take by Shampa Sengupta
Disability rights activist Shampa Sengupta takes an in depth look at why, despite adequate laws, the criminal justice system repeatedly fails girls and women... View Resource