WEI Beijing+20: WEI Questions and Comments Regarding Women and Girls with Disabilities

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WEI Beijing+20: WEI Questions and Comments Regarding Women and Girls with Disabilities

July 2014

The Government of the United States has embarked on its preparation of its Beijing+20 review process and on Thursday, June 26, 2014 held a briefing on this process with civil society at the White House. Women Enabled International, participated in this process and offers these preliminary general comments on the situation of women and girls with disabilities and herein outlines some key areas and questions which must be addressed in the final United States Government’s Beijing+20 report. Women Enabled International, is in the process of finalizing a more detailed report which provides factual data on the situation of women and girls with disabilities, addressing several issues which are to be included in any government’s Beijing+20 review. The inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in the Beijing + 20 review is provided for within the provisions of both the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and the Beijing Declaration2 and Platform for Action, among other international and regional treaties, and including the pronouncements of the CRPD’s treaty body and the Convention on the elimination of All Forms of Discrimination’s (CEDAW) treaty body.

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