Article 6 says:
- Governments should recognise that disabled women and girls face multiple discrimination (worse treatment because of their gender and their impairment).
- Governments should ensure disabled women can enjoy their human rights in full and should do everything possible to empower disabled women.
What does this mean?
This means that governments must take steps specifically related to disabled women – not just think about 'women' as a group, and 'disabled people as another group.
This helps you to highlight issues that affect disabled women in particular, and get the government to address these issues. For example, disabled women are twice as likely to be the victims of domestic violence, and often have limited access to support services.
There is another important international convention for disabled women – the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).