electricity rate at Php8.90 per kilo watt hour is highest in the region.8 Unlike other vulnerable groups such as senior citizens, persons with disabilities are not entitled to water and electric bill discount. Given the high number of disabled people living in poverty, most persons with disabilities are further burdened by high electricity cost. Inaccessible and far from government and other social services Inaccessibility to school, market, place of work and government services are common problems encountered by women with disabilities due to the remoteness of their houses from the city center. This further burdens women with disabilities especially those without sources of income as they have to pay higher transportation cost to be able to attend to their daily needs and avail government services. As shared in the FGD, “Medyo malayo siya sa school. Ang transportation kasi sa amin ay tricycle, kaya mahal ang papasok na tricycle.” Right to Food International frameworks on right to food of women with disabilities Generally understood as the right to feed oneself in dignity, the right to adequate food is a long-standing international human right. Article 25 of the UDHR and Article 11 of the ICESCR recognize the right to a “decent” or “adequate” standard of living, which implicitly includes access to adequate food as a basic human right. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in particular adopted General Recommendation 12 in 1999, in which it expressed that physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or to the means for its procurement is fundamental to the realization of right to adequate food. The text highlights the need for special attention and priority consideration with respect to accessibility of food for socially vulnerable groups and physically vulnerable individuals, such as infants and young children, elderly people, the physically disabled, the terminally ill and persons with persistent medical problems, including the mentally ill. Article 28 of the UN CRPD recognizes the right to adequate food of persons with disabilities as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and social protection. It identifies essential measures that the state must promote and ensure to achieve right to adequate food of persons with disabilities including access to clean and affordable water 8 https://www.philstar.com/business/2017/08/24/1732332/philippine-electricity-rates-still-highest-southeast-asia 21