The document discusses international frameworks that recognize and protect the rights of women with disabilities. Specifically: 1) The CRPD and CEDAW recognize that women with disabilities face multiple forms of discrimination and require states to ensure their equal enjoyment of human rights. 2) The CRPD, CEDAW, and ILO conventions like the 1983 Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation establish linkages and protections regarding employment, education, and reproductive rights for women with disabilities. 3) Issues that women with disabilities face in Eastern Europe and Central Asia include vulnerabilities in reproductive rights, education access, employment opportunities, and risks of violence and exploitation. Addressing these issues requires breaking down stigma, improving laws, empowerment,

1. Women living with disabilities
Yana Chicherina, Louise Sperl
16th February, 2012
Bratislava

2. International Frameworks (I)
The CRPD Convention
• Recognizes that women and girls with disabilities are
subject to multiple forms of discrimination.
• Art. 6: State parties obliged to take measures to ensure
full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms by women and girls with
disabilities.

3. International Frameworks (II)
Nexus CRPD - CEDAW
• General Recommendation No. 18 (1991) on
Disabled women
• CEDAW Concluding Observations
(e.g. Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine)

4. International Frameworks (II)
Nexus CRPD – ILO Conventions
• Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation and
Employment of Disabled Persons (No. 159) of 1983
• ILO Human Resources Development Recommendation
(No. 195) of 2004
• 2001 ILO Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the
Workplace.

5. Women with disabilities in ECIS
• Reproductive rights
• Vulnerability to
violence and sexual
exploitation
• Access to education
• Employment
opportunities

6. Addressing rights of women
with disabilities in ECIS
• Breaking stigma and
stereotypes
• Improving legislation
• Empowerment
• Reproductive rights
• Deinstitutalization/
protection from
violence

7. Thank you!
Contacts:
Yana.Chicherina@undpaffiliates.org;
louise.sperl@undp.org