The International Disability Alliance together with the Down Syndrome, International, the African Disability Forum, the European Disability Forum and the ASEAN Disability Forum are jointly organizing a webinar to provide a platform to women with disabilities, to share their experiences and propose priority areas for GDS 2025 to ensure gender response and disability inclusive commitments on right to health. Additionally, the discussions and feedback received shall be utilized to inform IDA’s upcoming paper on health equity of women with disabilities.
Objectives
- To reflect on the intersection between gender, disability and right to health, scalable good practices towards health equity for women with disabilities, pending gaps and what should be done.
- To build a momentum ahead of the GDS 2025 and encourage stakeholders including government, multilaterals, INGOs to develop and submit gender responsive and disability inclusive commitments in relation to health.
- To input on a paper on healthy equity for women with disabilities