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rights to social security, to employment, to health, to freedom from violence and to
participation in political and public life. They maintain that only 46 per cent of women with
disabilities have a full-time job compared to 81 per cent of men with disabilities, that
women with disabilities receive much lower levels of financial support for vocational
training and that they also have to combat a particularly large number of stereotypes.
71.
Organizations of persons with disabilities have also expressed concern that, since
2010, no separate statistics have been published at the federal level on children with
disabilities. They noted, however, that the numbers of children and young persons under the
age of 19 who are housed in residential institutions for persons with disabilities have been
on the increase since 2012 and appear to be disproportionately high. There is a lack of
meaningful statistics on the schooling of children and young persons with disabilities
throughout Switzerland.34 It is clear, however, that the proportion of compulsory schooling
taking place in segregated settings varies from canton to canton. There is practically no
research on violence against children and young persons with disabilities. Other
problematic issues raised include a lack of participation, of guidance on inclusive
preschools, of resources for early recognition and support, of psychiatric and
psychotherapeutic care and of a systematic adoption of pedagogical rather than
pharmaceutical approaches to support children with disorders such as attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder.
72.
The Special Rapporteur believes that disaggregated data is needed in order to
accurately assess a situation, to make inequalities visible and to identify those who have
been left behind. Only with such data can we develop evidence-based policies that
specifically target those most in need. Disaggregated data is also important for the
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development policies and programmes, and
for the overall tracking of progress in the implementation of the right to development on an
equal basis for all segments of society. National statistics agencies need to be properly
equipped to collect such data, through the development of their capacity to use qualitative
and quantitative human rights indicators when analysing inequalities. The Special
Rapporteur recalls that disability is recognized in the 2030 Agenda as a cross-cutting issue,
to be considered in the implementation of all of the Sustainable Development Goals. The
2030 Agenda includes 7 targets and 11 indicators that make explicit reference to persons
with disabilities, covering access to education and employment, inclusive education that is
sensitive to students with disabilities, the inclusion and empowerment of persons with
disabilities, and building the capacity of countries to disaggregate data by disability.
Furthermore, States are to systematically and coherently assess their progress towards
implementing Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 10, and other targets related to
progressing towards equality.
73.
Organizations of persons with disabilities have also expressed concern that
Switzerland has neither a comprehensive strategy for implementing the obligations under
article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities nor the necessary
legal basis for ensuring inclusion in vocational training and the workplace. Furthermore,
persons with disabilities are, in some cases, confronted with serious disadvantages. In 2017,
the employment rate among the general population was 84 per cent. Among persons with
disabilities, the employment rate was 68.1 per cent, and among those with severe
disabilities it was 42 per cent. 35 Furthermore, according to one source, the number of
persons with disabilities working in sheltered workshops (currently about 25,000) has
steadily increased between 2007 and 2013.36 The source also states that those workers are
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Switzerland reported that, according to statistics from 2017, there were approximately 54,000
children with disabilities in the country; one in five of these children was impaired in their ability to
live like other children of the same age; 6,992 received a helplessness allowance from their insurance;
1,622 lived in a specialized institution for all or part of the year.
See www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/economic-social-situation-population/equality-peopledisabilities.html.
Inclusion Handicap, submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, p. 23.
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