Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Submission for the review of the United States of America on Women, Girls, Non-binary People, and Gender Minorities with Disabilities from Marginalized Races
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Submission for the review of the United States of America on Women, Girls, Non-binary People, and Gender Minorities with Disabilities from Marginalized Races
By Women Enabled International, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, Autistic People of Color Fund, and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network
This submission will highlight the following issues as it relates to women and gender minorities who are from marginalized races: access to healthcare, institutionalization, access to services during natural disasters, and violence against women and gender minorities. This submission also provides recommendations regarding the steps the U.S. should take to address the issues highlighted.
Our shadow report raises several key issues. including:
- “The significant barriers posed by racial discrimination and stigma to accessing needed healthcare services–particularly those needed due to gender and/or disability–for women and gender minorities with disabilities in the U.S. This includes significant barriers to accessing needed healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Inequities in home and community-based services (HCBS), which persons with disabilities rely upon to meet daily needs. Not only are disabled women and disabled persons from marginalized races less likely to received needed HCBS, but the work of those who provide these invaluable services–primarily women of color–is also inadequately valued.
- Inequities in access to services following natural disasters, which are increasingly common in the U.S. and leave persons with disabilities in particularly precarious and dangerous situations”.
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