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Indian women with disabilities face double discrimination: Madras HC
Categorized as News Reports | Tagged under rightsThe court made the observations while dismissing an appeal filed by three persons challenging the seven years imprisonment awarded to them by a lower... View Resource
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Women with disabilities: Erased as individuals, invisible as a group
Teased, taunted, looked down upon, and spoken about instead of spoken to, women with disabilities experience the combined disadvantages associated with both gender and... View Resource
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Sexual Violence and the Disability Community Discussion Guide
A Resource for Those Working at the Nexus of Reproductive Justice and Disability Justice Published By Vilissa Thompson, Nora Ellmann, Rebecca Cokley, and Jamille... View Resource
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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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Disability, Gender and Caste Intersections in Indian Economy
By Nilika Mehrotra ABSTRACT Purpose - The aim of this chapter is to explore the marginal dimensions of disability, gender and caste in the... View Resource
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NPRD Convention against Sexual Assault on Women with Disabilities
Categorized as News Reports | Tagged under rightsSEVERAL disability rights organisations, women’s organisations, survivors and legal experts sat together in a convention on November 25, against sexual assaults on girls and... 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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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