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WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES

Why is the health of women with disabilities an issue?

Women with disabilities experience high rates of poverty, are over-represented in institutional care, and experience difficulties in accessing health system services (Salthouse 2005). Women with disabilities face multiple types of discrimination and are often more disadvantaged than men with disabilities in similar circumstances. Women with disabilities are often denied equal enjoyment of their human rights, in particular by virtue of the lesser status ascribed to them by tradition and custom, or as a result of overt or covert discrimination (UN CESCR 2005).

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Women with Disabilities: Resource Collections

Women With Disabilities Australia

05/21/2015/in Other /by admin

Publisher: Women With Disabilities Australia, 1995 – Current

Status – CURRENT

Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is the peak organisation for women with all types of disabilities in Australia. The website contains a large collection of papers, articles and reports; policy submissions; and newsletters ranging in date from 1995 to the present. Topics include violence against girls and women with disabilities, sexual and reproductive rights, sterilisation, etc.

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Women with Disabilities: Policy and Policy Development

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Women with Disabilities: Analysis, Comment and Positions

WWDA Submission to UN CRPD General Comment on Article 6

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Publisher: Women with Disabilities Australia, August 2015

Status – CURRENT

A submission to the United Nations in a response to an invitation to comment on Article 6 [Women  with   disabilities] of the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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WCHM Reports

05/16/2015/in Evidence / Statistics /by admin

Publisher: Women’s Centre for Health Matters

Status – CURRENT

A collection of reports published by Women’s Centre for Health Matters, ACT. Includes research and findings about Women behind bars, CALD Women, Indigenous Women, Young and Old Women, Women with disabilities etc.

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Stop the Violence: Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Australia. Background Paper.

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Publisher: Women with Disabilities Australia, 2013

Status – CURRENT

Part of the Stop the Violence Project, this is a background paper to the The National Symposium on Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities. It highlights 6 key issues: recognizing violence; responding to violence; inclusion and participation; sector development, cross-sector collaboration and data capture and use.

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Dehumanised -The Forced Sterilisation of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Australia

03/21/2013/in Policy Consultation /by admin

Publisher: Women With Disabilities Australia, 2013

Status – CURRENT

Recommendations to the Senate Enquiry into the forced sterilisation of women,

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It goes with the Territory! The views of ACT Women with Disabilities about Health and Wellbeing Information (2011)

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Publisher: Women’s Centre for Health Matters Inc, 2011

Status – CURRENT

This companion report presents the findings and views of the women who reported having a disability or long-term or chronic health issue and who participated in WCHM’s health and wellbeing information research, and identifies the major themes and the barriers facing women with disabilities in accessing the health and wellbeing information they need.

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Women with Disabilities: Evidence

What does it take? Developing informed and effective tertiary responses to violence and abuse of women and girls with disabilities in Australia: State of knowledge paper

07/16/2015/in Australia-wide, Evidence / Statistics /by admin

Publisher: Anrows,  2015

Status – CURRENT

This paper establishes the current state of knowledge on tertiary responses to violence and abuse for women and girls with disabilities.  The paper outlines:   tertiary responses to violence and abuse for women and young women with disabilities; and what the evidence says about the effectiveness of tertiary responses for women and young women with disabilities.

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WCHM Reports

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Publisher: Women’s Centre for Health Matters

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A collection of reports published by Women’s Centre for Health Matters, ACT. Includes research and findings about Women behind bars, CALD Women, Indigenous Women, Young and Old Women, Women with disabilities etc.

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Women with Disabilities: Practice

WCHM Reports

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Publisher: Women’s Centre for Health Matters

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A collection of reports published by Women’s Centre for Health Matters, ACT. Includes research and findings about Women behind bars, CALD Women, Indigenous Women, Young and Old Women, Women with disabilities etc.

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Stop the Violence: Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Australia. Background Paper.

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Publisher: Women with Disabilities Australia, 2013

Status – CURRENT

Part of the Stop the Violence Project, this is a background paper to the The National Symposium on Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities. It highlights 6 key issues: recognizing violence; responding to violence; inclusion and participation; sector development, cross-sector collaboration and data capture and use.

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Women with Disabilities: Tools

Women with Disability & Domestic & Family Violence

06/03/2016/in Australia-wide, New South Wales, Tools / 'How to' Resources /by admin

Publisher: People with Disability Australia and Domestic Violence NSW Inc., 2016

Status – CURRENT

Australian women with disability are 37.3% more at risk of domestic and family violence. In NSW, over 43% of women experiencing personal violence have disability or a long-term illness, meaning that they experience violence at twice the rate of other women. The toolkit is a package of 3 informative and practical documents designed to support a service to become disability inclusive:

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