Women, girls, and gender non-conforming people with disabilities: Know your rights!

UN Women and Women Enabled International developed this “Know your rights” guide in consultation with women with disabilities.

The purpose of this document is to provide a user-friendly guide for women with disabilities across the globe to understand their rights in accessing support when experiencing gender-based violence and to enable them to advocate with States for their rights.

This publication is part of the “Briefs on women and girls with disabilities series”.

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Bibliographic information

Number of pages

7

Resource type(s)

Manuals and tools

Publishing entities

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Women Enabled International (WEI)

UN Women office publishing

UN Women Headquarters Office

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