Read the attachment below to learn how we advocate.
Tag: Position statement
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Why women* with disabilities?
Read the attachment below for information about why advocacy is necessary for women and non-binary people with disabilities.
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Position statement: Crisis services for Women* with Disabilities
Our position
- Crisis and emergency housing should be available to all women* with disabilities who require these services in the ACT.
- The domestic violence services must work with disability services and Disability People’s Organisations to share expertise and improve understandings of an intersectional approach to avoid creating silos in the sector.
- Information about how domestic violence services can and will cater to women* with disabilities should be explicit and easily accessible.
- Women* with disabilities who contact domestic violence services should be asked what their immediate care needs are.
- All women* with disabilities who seek crisis and emergency housing should promptly be put in touch with an individual advocacy organisation to support them through the process.
- All crisis and emergency housing in the ACT should be accessible for women* who have physical disabilities including those women* who use mobility aids.
- Crisis services should ensure current important information on accessing the service is made accessible (e.g., Easy English, plain English, screen reader friendly information)
- Women* with disabilities must be consulted about how to improve services.
- Data on the number of women* with disabilities requesting, accessing, or being turned away from domestic violence services should be kept and made public.
You can learn more by reading our position statement linked below.
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Position statement: Equitable participation of women* with disabilities
Our position
- The equitable participation of women* with disabilities is crucial to achieving full and effective participation in all aspects of life on an equal basis with others.
- Women* with disabilities must be part of the leadership of Disabled People’s Organisations on an equal basis with men with disabilities.
- Women* with disabilities must be encouraged and supported to take up positions of leadership and decision-making across all levels of government.
- Women* with disabilities must be encouraged and supported to take up positions of leadership within their communities.
- Accurate and diverse representation of women* with disabilities must be achieved across all forms of media.
- Women with disabilities must have access to all forms of education on an equal basis with others in the community. This includes but is not limited to secondary education, tertiary education, vocational education, and workplace professional development.
- Gender and disability disaggregated data should be kept and publicised to both understand the current state of disempowerment and track progress.
You can learn more by reading our position statement linked below.
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Position statement: Sexual health and reproductive health rights
Our position
- Sexual and reproductive health rights are fundamental human rights.
- The discrimination of women* with disabilities in areas of sexual and reproductive health rights is in violation of multiple provisions of the CRPD.
- Women* with disabilities have the right to make free and informed choices about their bodies, sexual health, reproductive health, intimate and emotional relationships, and parenting.
- Sexual and reproductive health rights include the right for all couples and individuals to found and maintain a family. This includes the right to and access to the information and means to do so.
- Women* with disabilities have the right to sexual pleasure, expression, relationships, equity, privacy, freedom, autonomy, and self-determination.
- Comprehensive sexuality education materials, as well as information on sexual and reproductive health must be made available to women* to with disability in accessible formats.
- WWDACT opposes the use of forced sterilization, abortion, and contraception – which constitute violence against women* with disability – in the ACT
- The forced removal of children because of their mother’s disability is a violation of fundamental human rights.
- When required, women* with disabilities must be provided with the supports needed to make their own decisions about their body without third-party interference.
You can learn more by reading our position statement linked below.
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Position statement: Prevention of Violence against Women* with Disabilities
Our position
Women and non-binary people with disabilities have the right to freedom from all forms of violence.
- Women and non-binary people with disabilities have the right to freedom from all forms of violence.
- All forms of violence are blatant violations of basic human rights.
- WWDACT opposes all forms of violence in all settings across the ACT.
- Violence against women and non-binary people with disabilities must be understood in context of intersections between gender and disability.
- Violence is preventable. There is an urgent need for prevention programs in the ACT informed by human rights frameworks and intersectional frameworks.
You can learn more by reading our position statement below.