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66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

By IDA

- March 29, 2022

The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place from 14 to 25 March 2022.
CSW 66 International Disability Alliance-led Joint Statement

By IDA

- March 17, 2022

Read by: Sainimili Tawake, Pacific Disability Forum
Statement for the Commission on the Status of Women, March 2021

By IDA

- March 25, 2021

Parties to CEDAW are obliged to eliminate discrimination against women in political participation. Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are obliged to ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others. These include the right and opportunity for women with disabilities to vote and to be elected.
Women’s Education And Political Participation

By IDA

- March 24, 2021

Inequalities that harm women and girls with disabilities are so deeply rooted in our culture that I feel we should be talking about measures to unlearn some of the customs, beliefs and traditions that run so deep in our systems.
Commission on Status of Women 2021: Side Events

By IDA

- March 15, 2021