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Women With Disabilities Australia: Submission to the Australian NGO Beijing+15 Review (September 2009)

In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women was held by the United Nations in Beijing, China by the United Nations. At that conference, all the governments of all nations attending agreed to the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA). The BPFA was a landmark agreement. It identified a range of actions governments, the United Nations and civil society groups should take to make women's human rights a reality. In March 2010, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will undertake the fifteen-year review of the implementation of the BPFA. This document is WWDA's Submission to the Australian NGO Beijing+15 Review. It looks at the BPA critical areas for action, in the context of women with disabilities in Australia, and provides a brief analysis of some f the key issues for disabled women and girls. The voices of women with disabilities are strengthened with the use of direct quotes relating to particular issue areas.

WWDAโs Submission to the Australian NGO Beijing+15 Review can be downloaded in either PDF or Word from WWDAโs website. Go to: www.wwda.org.au/subs2006.htm

Additional Information

Country: Australia
Website: www.wwda.org.au
Email: wwda@wwda.org.au
Phone: N/A
Contact Person: N/A
Source: Carolyn Frohmader, Executive Director Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
When: 27/10/2009