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The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

16/03/2026

23 pages long

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The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

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Women and girls with diverse disabilities have been largely neglected in the World Conference on Women (WCW) documents in the decades preceding the Fourth WCW in Beijing in 1995, which endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), and the subsequent five-yearly implementation reports up to and including the report for Beijing+30. Although the Beijing WCW […]

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Motherhood, disability, and rurality: descolonising practices and knowledge via the Las Quiscas case in Chile

12/12/2023

20 pages long

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Motherhood, disability, and rurality: descolonising practices and knowledge via the Las Quiscas case in Chile

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Women with disabilities face a series of obstacles while exercising their motherhood. Despite the inter-disciplinary studies which have been undertaken on this topic, the ‘modern/colonial/Western/urban’ comprehension of these studies is incomplete and often lacks contextuality. The aim of this study is thus to investigate the life trajectory of a woman with a visual disability, regarding […]

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Deaf cultures: towards decolonisation of body, disability, and deafness

12/12/2023

14 pages long

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Deaf cultures: towards decolonisation of body, disability, and deafness

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The article discusses the concept of disability, body, and deafness in the context of colonialism, and Brahminism. In this paper, I argue that Deafness is not limited to hearing loss, but it's a “social and cultural condition.” The authoritative/medical model of the body is rooted in colonialism, it has created an ‘idealness’ for all the […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Inclusive Language Guide

08/03/2023

1 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. As we are making commitments to decolonization in practice, it is important that we do not forget the role of language and communications in the context of inequality. The Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people […]

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Building capacity for a disability-inclusive response to violence against women and girls: experiences from the W-DARE project in the Philippines

20/07/2016

15 pages long

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Building capacity for a disability-inclusive response to violence against women and girls: experiences from the W-DARE project in the Philippines

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The Philippines has developed a range of national laws, policies, and programmes in response to violence against women and girls (VAWG). However, as elsewhere, the needs and experiences of women with disabilities are rarely considered in government policies or development activities. Yet women with disabilities are more likely to experience violence than their peers without […]

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Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

10/11/2014

12 pages long

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Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

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The burden of care for a disabled relative traditionally falls on women: mothers, wives, sisters. In Cambodia, Khmer culture is strongly structured around the family unit within which both the role of women and discrimination towards people with disabilities are sanctioned by social hierarchy, perceptions of weakness, and the concept of karmic merit. This article explores the impact of […]

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Intersectional mainstreaming and Sightsavers’ Lady Health Workers Programme in Pakistan

07/11/2012

8 pages long

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Intersectional mainstreaming and Sightsavers’ Lady Health Workers Programme in Pakistan

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Gender mainstreaming, or at least the language of gender mainstreaming, has become a mainstay for donor agencies and non-government organisations engaged in development work. Increasingly, however, there are calls for the mainstreaming of other so-called ‘cross-cutting aspects of development’, such as disability. This article tries to provide an answer to the resultant question of how […]

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More practical lessons from five projects on disability-inclusive development

01/05/2012

8 pages long

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The present article follows on from the practical note in Development in Practice 20(7): 879–886 that looked at seven common early lessons learnt from the inclusion of disabled people in World Vision programming work across four countries, based on socially inclusive principles. Externally led evaluations and technical support work undertaken between December 2010 and July […]

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Signs speak as loud as words: deaf empowerment in Namibia

01/04/2012

11 pages long

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The present article outlines a development project carried out in Namibia in 2006–2010 by the Icelandic International Development Agency and the Namibian Ministry of Education. The project aimed primarily to empower deaf people by building capacity in deaf education and developing Namibian Sign Language. Strong emphasis was placed on strengthening government structures and services to […]

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Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

01/08/2011

11 pages long

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Physically disabled women’s creditworthiness in Village Development Fund: evidence from Thailand

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The Village Development Fund (VDF) is used in Thailand to empower the rural poor, especially women living with disabilities. This article investigates the problems of gaining access to credit faced by physically disabled women in rural Thailand. In-depth interviews with 20 women with physical disabilities in north-eastern Thailand indicate that these women still do not […]

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