[PDFlist] FW: [IDA_CRPD_Forum] Call for States Parties to increase disability representation within the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) [French and Spanish attached] [3 Attachments]

Mon May 14 15:35:45 MDT 2018

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On May 15, 2018 3:59 AM, "Setareki Macanawai" <CEO at pacificdisability.org>
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*Subject:* [IDA_CRPD_Forum] Call for States Parties to increase disability
representation within the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW) [French and Spanish attached] [3 Attachments]

Organizations call on States Parties to increase disability representation
within the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW)

The International Disability Alliance, Women Enabled International, Spanish
National Organisation of the Blind (*ONCE*), Spanish Committee of
Representatives of Persons with Disabilities  (CERMI), and the
International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) *call upon
States Parties to promote the representation of women with disabilities
within the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW Committee), reaffirming that women and girls with disabilities
represent a significant part of the population of all women and that
disability representation in treaty bodies must expand beyond the Committee
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). As such, we
encourage States Parties to strongly consider the election of Ms. Ana
Peláez, a two-term CRPD Committee member who will provide essential
expertise in addressing multiple and intersectional discrimination, to the
CEDAW Committee. *Elections for the CEDAW Committee will be held at United
Nations headquarters in New York on June 7th, 2018.

Throughout its 37-year history the CEDAW Committee has yet to include a
member who identifies as having a disability, despite the fact that an
estimated one in five women worldwide lives with disabilities. Furthermore,
the disability prevalence rate is much higher among women (19.2%) than men
(12%) due to higher rates of poverty among women, fewer educational
opportunities, poor workforce conditions, gender and disability-based
violence, and neglect in health care, including sexual and reproductive
health care, among other factors. (1) This means that the consequences of
multiple and intersecting discrimination based on both gender and
disability should be a central human rights issue for the CEDAW Committee.
Indeed, due to this discrimination, women and girls with disabilities
experience violations of their rights that are unique from and
disproportionate to those experienced by men and nondisabled women,
including, for example: higher rates of gender-based violence; unique
barriers to sexual and reproductive health care and forced reproductive
health interventions including forced sterilization, forced contraception,
and forced abortion; higher rates of institutionalization and lower rates
of education, including primary education. (2) These are urgent issues that
the CEDAW Committee can and must address.

The CEDAW Committee has frequently recognized that the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) prohibits
multiple and intersecting discrimination against women and girls with
disabilities, and the Committee has highlighted this group as a critical
population whose rights States Parties must take special measures to
respect, protect, and fulfill. However, without the representation of women
with disabilities on the CEDAW Committee, the rights and priorities of
women and girls with disabilities remain at the margins of the Committee’s
important work. Women with intersectional identities—including women with
disabilities—bring a fuller understanding of human rights issues that
impact women and girls. While men and nondisabled women on the CEDAW
Committee can and should raise the issues of women and girls with
disabilities, this cannot replace the self-representation of women with
disabilities themselves, recalling the disability rights adage “nothing
about us without us.” The representation of women with disabilities on the
CEDAW Committee is essential to bring to light the experiences of a
substantial portion of the population whose rights have often been
overlooked.

On June 7th, States Parties have the opportunity to rectify the lack of
disability representation on the CEDAW Committee and broaden its diversity
by electing Ms. Ana Peláez as the first woman with a disability to serve on
the Committee. Ms. Peláez brings not only the experience of working in the
United Nations human rights system as a two-term CRPD Committee expert, but
she also contributes her decades of experience in addressing intersecting
discrimination among historically marginalized communities, including women
and girls with disabilities. It is time now for the CEDAW Committee to
truly reflect all facets of human diversity.
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[1]UN World Health Organization (WHO), *World Report on Disability: Summary*,
2011, WHO/NMH/VIP/11.01, available at: http://www.who.int/
disabilities/world_report/2011/en/[accessed 4 May 2018]

[2]UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), *General
comment No. 3 (2016), Article 6: Women and girls with disabilities*, 2
September 2016, CRPD/C/GC/3, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/
HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/GC.aspx
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[accessed 4 May 2018]

*Megan Smith*

International Disability Alliance

205 E. 42nd St, 16th Floor

New York, NY 10167

Skype: megan.smith3

E-mail: msmith at ida-secretariat.org

Website: www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org
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