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WWDA Position Statement 1: The Right to Freedom from All Forms of Violence
Violence against women is one of the most widespread violations of human rights worldwide and is now firmly at the forefront of the international development agenda as an urgent human rights issue requiring national government and international action.Unequivocally, WWDA believes that all women and girls with disability have the right to freedom from all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect, regardless of the setting in which the violence occurs, and regardless of who perpetrates it.
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WWDA Position Statement 1: The Right to Freedom from All Forms of Violence
Violence against women and girls with disability is a form of disability discrimination, a form of gender-based discrimination, and often occurs within, and as a result of, intersectional forms of discrimination. Women with disability experience extensive discrimination across a range of settings, including the justice system. A common impact of violence for mothers with disability is the removal of their children by authorities based only on the presence of disability.
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WWDA Position Statement 1: The Right to Freedom from All Forms of Violence
WWDA is unequivocal in its position of actively opposing all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation against women and girls with disability in all settings across Australia, including in private homes, group homes, boarding houses, supported accommodation facilities, day programs, mental health facilities, prisons, schools, hospitals, out-of-home-care, immigration detention centres, aged care facilities, other closed settings, and workplaces.
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WWDA Position Statement 1: The Right to Freedom from All Forms of Violence
WWDA subscribes to an inclusive definition of ‘violence against women’ that recognises that ‘Violence against women’ occurs on a continuum that spans interpersonal and structural violence; acknowledges the structural aspects and factors of discrimination, including structural and institutional inequalities; and analyses social and economic hierarchies between women and men (inter-gender inequalities) and among women (intra-gender inequalities).
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WWDA Position Statement 1: The Right to Freedom from All Forms of Violence
WWDA believes the epidemic of violence against women and girls with disability is continuing unabated due to deep-rooted inequality and extreme forms of discrimination against women and girls with disability.
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