Indigenous Women and Girls with Disabilities are Bigger Targets of Sexual Violence #IWagWid
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Gehl Report: Indigenous Women and Girls with Disabilities and Gender-Based Violence (2021)
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Addressing the needs of Indigenous women and girls with disabilities, require a new conceptual model. While the ‘medical model of disability’ and the ‘social model of disability’ have been useful for Canadian policy and program developers, the ‘political model of disability’ will best serve Indigenous women and girls with disabilities in terms of understanding and addressing the compounding and interacting elements of the intersectional oppression that they live under. Through this new conceptual model, Canadians, parliamentarians, feminists, and policy and program developers will be better equipped to perceive, understand, and address the main barriers in remedying the lived reality of Indigenous women and girls with disabilities.
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My written submission to the United Nations' 79th General Discussion CEDAW Session (June 2021) regarding Indigenous women and girls with disabilities has been accepted and posted. Scroll down to written contributions and locate Gehl (it is the 5th one down):
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/DGDRightsIndigenousWomenAndGirls.aspx
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/DGDRightsIndigenousWomenAndGirls.aspx
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Listen to my 3 minute Oral Intervention submission to 79th General Discussion CEDAW session regarding Indigenous women:
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