The right to access information, free and accessible health services including sexual
and reproductive health, education and livelihood opportunities for women with
disabilities are already enshrined in laws and guaranteed by international human rights
treaties. The government should take full measure to implement these laws.
Health facilities from the barangay to tertiary hospitals should be arranged to offer
services accessible to women with disabilities. Ensure that data gathering, financing,
and delivery of health services are inclusive for women and girls with disabilities.
The government should take measures to eliminate barriers causing disparities due to
gender and disability at all levels of education. These measures should promote
equality and effective delivery of education services for women and girls with
disabilities, by means of implementing a comprehensive plan for inclusive education
and allocating corresponding budget for it.
6. Monitoring of human rights violations against women and girls with disabilities
and of implementation of programs and projects for women with disabilities
Policies that enable and guarantee full participation of women with disabilities in
mechanisms and processes of monitoring progress towards realizing the full enjoyment
of human rights by women should be in place. This means establishing systematic
monitoring and reporting frameworks across all sectors and development indicators.
CHR should exercise greater vigilance in monitoring to ensure that programs and
national development goals are disability-inclusive. The Magna Carta of Women
mandates the CHR to monitor full implementation of all gender-related measures,
including the disability-specific provisions which impact women and girls with
disabilities.
The National Council for Disability Affairs, as the lead agency tasked to monitor
implementation of disability-related laws, should play a primary role in advocating for
amendments of laws discriminatory to women with disabilities. It is also in the best
position to oversee overall progress towards realizing rights of persons with disabilities,
ensuring full and meaningful participation of women and girls with disabilities in these
processes.
National agencies and local government units should take steps to ensure participation
of women with disabilities in community initiatives, policy-making, programming and
delivery of services. Government should work with stakeholders to address glaring
gaps in existing monitoring mechanisms, for example the inadequacy of mechanisms
to monitor and address diverse needs of women and girls with disabilities who are
victim-survivors of VAW. Among others, the government should make efforts to
establish monitoring mechanisms gender-based violence against women and girls with
disabilities, situation of women with disabilities affected by disasters and emergency.
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