Good Practices: Access to Justice Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Persons with Disabilities

By Women Enabled International

Aug 9, 2019

Women Enabled International (WEI) appreciates the opportunity to respond to the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ call for submissions regarding good practices for ensuring effective access to justice for persons with disabilities.

This submission addresses global good practices for ensuring effective access to justice for women and girls with disabilities. The submission first provides an overview of the barriers to access to justice faced uniquely and disproportionately by women and girls with disabilities. It then offers a brief summary of relevant human rights standards, focusing particularly on standards relating to states’ obligations to ensure a gender- and disability-responsive justice system. The submission then identifies global good practices for ensuring effective access to justice for women with disabilities, informed by these human rights standards. The submission concludes with recommendations that we hope will help inform the Special Rapporteur’s forthcoming report.