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promoting autonomy and addressing specific risk factors should be the goal, with
adequate attention to the fields of education, employment, health and social
protection.
53.
Such policies and programmes should be developed in close partnerships with
women and girls with disabilities and with disability organizations, including those
providing services for survivors, and encompass:
(a)
Ensuring, in line with article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, the collection of appropriate information, including
statistical and research data, on all forms of violence experienced by women and girls
with disabilities, disaggregated by sex, age and disability. Disability should be
included in victimization surveys;
(b)
In accordance with article 8 of the Convention, awareness-raising
programmes designed to change the societal perception of persons with disabilities
and shed light on the specific violence suffered by persons with disabilities, including
situations that expose women and girls with disabilities to violence;
(c)
Reviewing and/or amending legislation on violence against women to
ensure that it expressly prohibits all forms of violence against women and girls with
disabilities, in accordance with relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other
relevant international human rights treaties; this should also include ensuring that
legislation on violence against women and/or domestic violence takes into account
specific forms of violence suffered by women and girls with disabilities;
(d)
Prohibiting by law forced sterilization of children and adults on the
grounds of disability,57 ensuring adequate procedural safeguards to protect the right
to free and prior informed consent;
(e)
Prohibiting compulsory/forced treatment of persons with disabilities and
ensuring adequate procedural safeguards to protect the right to prior informed
consent;
(f)
The implementation of existing laws prohibiting harmful practices of
children and, as necessary, the adoption of new laws to eliminate such practices;
(g)
Ensuring that services and programmes designed to protect women and
girls from violence are accessible to women and girls with disabilities. This includes
ensuring that facilities, in particular shelters, are accessible to women with
disabilities; mainstreaming disability in materials and training courses addressed at
professionals working on violence against women; and ensuring dissemination of
information on available protection and other available services in an accessible
format;
(h)
Addressing disability-specific vulnerabilities, including by offering
services and social support to women and girls with disabilities at the community
level, as well as assistive devices in order to avoid isolation and confinement in their
homes; ensuring adequate institutional oversight of institutions where women and
girls with disabilities reside; ensuring access to information for women and girls with
disabilities, and for people in their immediate environment, on how to prevent,
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against women and/or domestic violence, including violence against women and girls with
disabilities.
CRC/C/GC/9, para. 60.
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