The Senate unanimously adopted this Wednesday a transpartisan motion for a resolution aimed at alerting to violence against women with disabilities. Tabled by the chairperson of the delegation for women's rights, Annick Billon (centrist) and co-signed by senators of all stripes, this text aims to call for "a general awareness of the violence, especially sexual violence, which threatens women with disabilities and mobilization of all of society against this scourge ”.
A report published in October gave an "alarming" assessment according to which four out of five disabled women are victims of violence.
✅ Wed. Jan 8, 2020, the # Senate unanimously adopted a motion for a resolution to denounce and act against violence against women with disabilities, tabled by @AnnickBillon and several of his colleagues.
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Efforts for "access to studies, training and employment"
The motion for a resolution, which has no binding value, recalls that the autonomy, particularly economic, of women with disabilities “is a condition of their protection against the risk of violence (…) which requires significant efforts in terms of access to studies, training and employment ”. She pleads "so that women with disabilities are not forgotten" of the policy pursued to strengthen the fight against violence against women.
"You can count on the government (...) to advance the cause of women with disabilities, who are full women," said the Secretary of State for Persons with Disabilities, Sophie Cluzel.
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