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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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    Development and Self-Help Movement of Women with Disabilities

    Independent Living Institute, 2002
    In Japan, women continue to have inferior status to men and this is compounded when women and girls have disabilities. Few economic opportunities means a higher propensity to poverty and this drastically reduces disabled women's and girls' health and well-being.
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    Confronting the Sexual Abuse of Women with Disabilities

    National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women, 2005
    The false assumption that women with disabilities are not sexual beings has not freed them from sexual abuse. Yet the important research on the sexual abuse of women often ignores disability while disability research rarely considers the sexual abuse of women with disabilities. This paper examines the shortcomings of research methods in the United States.
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    A Voice of Our Own: Advocacy by Women with Disability in Australia and the Pacific

    Routledge, 2005
    Women with disabilities are largely invisible within women's rights and disability rights agendas. They do not generally benefit from international human rights laws and agreements, or from development processes. This is particularly evident for women in the Pacific region and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
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    Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

    2006
    How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.
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    Disabled Women and Independent Life in Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Russia, South Africa and Uganda

    Disability World, 2000
    Disabled women are discriminated against because they are women and also because they are disabled. Disabled women have played a very important part in the disabled people's movement since its inception. And yet, their contribution is often invisibilised or not properly acknowledged, in some occasions it is even not welcome.
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    Women and Disabilities. Good Practice

    Instituto de Migraciones y Servicios Sociales, 2000
    Disabled women are a heavily discriminated group. In order for them to enjoy equal opportunities, discriminatory policies and practices need to be abolished. This document describes the experiences of four European initiatives of disabled women which are transformative and innovative.
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    A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities

    Hesperian Foundation, 2007
    Written in collaboration with women with disabilities in over 40 developing and developed countries, this handbook aims to help women and girls with disabilities to care for themselves; improve their general health, capabilities and self-reliance; and participate more effectively in their communities.
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    Income, aging, health and wellbeing around the world: evidence from the Gallup World Poll

    Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University, 2007
    This paper looks at the effects of age on self-reported wellbeing in 132 countries. It covers life satisfaction,  health, and disability, with how these change with age, and with how the effects of age differ across countries according to their level of development and their region of the world.
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    World economic and social survey 2007: development in an ageing world

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2007
    The World Economic and Social Survey 2007analyses the challenges and opportunities associated with ageing populations and aims to facilitate discussions in furthering the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, adopted in 2002. In particular it looks at the following issues:

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