Girl children gave examples of how they experience neglect from family members, pressure to work and help the family’s survival, rejection and isolation due to early pregnancy, and isolation and restriction to play due to disability. For girl children, the family is sometimes the first site of violence. There are also cases of child and sexual abuse perpetrated by family members. Civil society organizations assert that families do not always report cases of sexual abuse due to the shame that it might bring to the family. Violence against girl children with disabilities The Philippine Alliance of Women with Disabilities’ submission for the 64​TH Session of the 4 CEDAW Review in 2016 , emphasized the multi-faceted experience of discrimination of women and girls with disabilities. The submission detailed the wide-ranging human rights issues faced by girl children in the Philippines including the following: widespread and continuing lack of awareness toward deaf girl victims of violence; lack of capacity of women’s desks to provide assistance to victims of abuse ;and failure of law enforcement to successfully prosecute cases of trafficking of girls with disabilities; and persistent prejudice and gender stereotypes by law enforcement officials against girl victims of violence. The report also mentions barriers to the right to vote and full participation in public and political life, poorer performance and completion rates of girls with disabilities in primary education, particularly in rural areas, and the lack of age-appropriate sexuality and reproductive health education. Lastly, PAWID submission also emphasized that lack of data is often cited by government agencies as reasons not to enact policies and programs for girls with disabilities. 4 Submission by the Philippine Alliance of Women with Disabilities for consideration in the review of the State Party of the Republic of the Philippines, to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 64​th​ Session, 04-22 July 2016 10