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    Water and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups: Designing Services to Improve Accessibility

    Loughborough University of Technology, 2005
    Based on three years of research in low-income countries, this book provides a range of practical low-cost solutions to improve accessibility to household water and sanitation facilities for children, women and men who experience limitations in carrying out such activities.
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    Disabled Women in the Workforce - Breaking Down the Barriers

    Equal Opportunities Commission, UK, 2007
    48 percent of disabled people of working age in Britain (3.3 million) are women and according to this report, they face multiple barriers because they experience discrimination on account of both their disability and their gender.
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    Violence and Abuse against Women with Disabilities in Malawi

    Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research, 2006
    Through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, this study examines the experiences of abuse, violence and neglect of 23 women with disabilities in the urban Blantyre district of Malawi. The disabilities of the interviewees include visual, mental, hearing and physical impairments.
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    Sexuality, development and human rights

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    Historically development work has dealt with sexuality in limited ways, the best illustration being the subsuming of sexuality under family-planning that prevailed from the 1960s on.
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    Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities: A Human Rights Framework

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2002
    Women with disabilities comprise ten percent of women world-wide but yet their reproductive health and rights are often neglected. This paper suggests that international human rights laws and agreements be used to protect the rights of women with disabilities.
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    Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading

    University Press of Florida, 2004
    An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.The book documents the historical development of Islamic thought and describes how Muslim males hav
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    New insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
    One in every seven girls in developing countries marries before the age of 15 and nearly half are expected to marry by their 20th birthday, according to this report.
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    Women with Disabilities: Lessons of Reinforcing the Gender Perspective in International Norms and Standards

    United Nations, 2003
    Getting 'Women with Disabilities' onto the United Nations' (UN) development agenda has been a long process. This paper charts the detailed history of including women with disabilities in international agreements. Originally the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) made no mention of women with disabilities.
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    Gendering the Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

    2006
    There are an estimated 300 million women with disabilities world-wide. These women face discrimination based both on their disability and their gender. Three quarters of women with disabilities are excluded from the workforce and women and girls with disabilities are at high risk from physical and sexual violence. Meanwhile only one percent of disabled women and girls are literate.
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    Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies

    Mobility International USA, 2002
    Do women and girls with disabilities participate in international development processes? What data is collected on their involvement? This survey of 165 United States-based international development organisations shows that 93 percent of respondent organisations do not know the extent of participation of women and girls with disabilities in their programmes due to insufficient data.

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