They have also been under-recognized by the women’s rights movement – the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) does not explicitly refer to women and girls with disabilities.1 And despite the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) that recognizes how women and girls with disabilities face multiple and intersecting discrimination, t. [...] Based on Canada’s FIAP and broader com- with disabilities and their organizations mitments to the realization of the SDGs and to policies and programs that embrace GBA+ and more recently The Global Forum on the Leadership of Women with the DIAP (Disability Inclusion Action Plan), the GFLWD Disabilities (GFLWD) is a diverse collective of women is an ideal platform from which to begin a renewed and. [...] WOMEN AND GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES 5 © DAWN CANADA Ensure inclusive sexual reproductive health should support overall aims of empowerment and social and rights (SRHR) services and systems justice and aim to shift the alignment of power within the research process through the participation of re- A multisectoral approach, which involves partnership search beneficiaries and subjects. [...] capacities and contributions of women with disabilities and developing leadership among girls and women with Another example of an initiative centred on women disabilities.30 and girls with disabilities is W-DARE29 which sought to generate data and increase knowledge of the lived 29. [...] will be dedicated to sexual and reproductive health and Women with disabilities face barriers to participating in rights, must recognize the bodily autonomy and sexua- decision-making in governments, the UN and funding lity of women with disabilities as well as the existing and agencies.
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