A/HRC/45/15/Add.1 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 34 35 36 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. Available at https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx? symbolno=INT%2fCRPD%2fICO%2fCHE%2f35844&Lang=en. 15

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