1. Deaf and Hard of Hearing 2. Orthopedic Impairment 3. Parents of Children with Disabilities 4. Chronic illness (with proven impairment) and psychosocial disability 5. Visual impairment 6. Older persons 7. Women with disabilities IV. Specific Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Women with Disabilities This report draws from the result of a series of joint consultations of the ESCRC, CRC, and CGEWHR with civil society organizations, peoples’ organizations, non-government organizations and national government agencies. It provides an overview of the ESCR of persons with disabilities particularly women with disabilities, a summary of issues of women with disabilities and finally recommendations for moving forward. IV.A Right to Education International frameworks on right to education of women with disabilities The right to education of all, including women with disabilities, is guaranteed under Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 13 of International Convention on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) gives further detail to the Universal Declaration by formally acknowledging the right of everyone to free and compulsory primary education as well as, progressively, to free secondary and tertiary education. Most notably, Article 13 of ICESR implicitly promotes the concept of inclusive education highlighting education’s role of enabling, “all persons to participate effectively in a fee society”. The principle of inclusive education is more explicitly acknowledged in articles 28 and 23 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with the former focusing on the purposes of education and the latter, relating specifically to children with disabilities, by imposing an obligation on States to ensure that children with disabilities have “effective access to and receive education, training, health-care services, rehabilitation services, preparation for employment and recreation opportunities in a manner conducive to the child’s achieving the fullest possible social integration and individual development”. The Committee on the Rights of the Child in particular adopted General Recommendation 9 in 2006, in which it specifically views inclusive education as the goal of educating children with disabilities and indicates that States should aim 3