Disability World
A bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views • Issue no. 19 June-August 2003


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Women briefly

Recent reports and information on disabled women now posted on DPI's website
The Disabled Peoples' International website has several new postings about women with disabilities. Included in these postings are a story about the Swapo Party Women's Council's assertion that disabled women are being shut out of programs and services aimed at empowering women in Namibia; a paper concerning the situation of disabled women in Pakistan that was presented at the 2000 International Special Education Conference; and a four-year report by DPI's Women's Committee:
  1. International Women's Disability Networks
    http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/05-23-03_WWD_email.htm

  2. Self-empowerment for Women with Disabilities in Pakistan
    http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/05-23-03_WWD_Pakistan.htm

  3. Disabled Women Marginalized in Namibia
    http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/05-23-03_WWD_Namibia.htm

  4. DPI Women's Committee Special Session (Action Plan), October 2002
    http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/05-22-03_WCSpecial.htm

  5. Report 1998 - 2002 Women's Committee
    http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/Womens_Report_98-02.htm

  6. Manifesto of the 3rd European Conference "Women with Disability Victims of Violence. What to do?"
    http://www.dpi.org/en/resources/topics/women/Manifesto.htm


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