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Women and girls with disabilities are equal rights holders, not ‘helpless objects of pity’ – UN rights committee

Women and girls with disabilities are equal rights holders, not ‘helpless objects of pity’ – UN rights committee

Aug 31, 2016, at 01:56 pm

New York, Aug 31 (Just Earth News): Noting that national policies often tend to treat women and girls with disabilities as helpless objects of pity or allow them to be treated in that manner, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stressed that, instead, they need to be empowered and allowed to enjoy their fundamental rights and freedoms, as any other person.