A Current Event Analysis: Disabilities

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Current Event Analysis: Disabilities Systematic discrimination against women and girls with disabilities continues to result in the denial of the rights to experience their sexuality, to have sexual relationships and to found and maintain families. While the right to integrity and the right of a woman to make her own reproductive choices are contained in a number of international human rights treaties, women with disabilities continue to be denied these rights through practices such as forced sterilization, sexual violence and the removal of their legal capacity in many parts of the world. I have always been interested in those with disabilities. My parents used to run a home dedicated to taking proper care of those with intellectual and physical disabilities and I grew up being surrounded them. Many of them I am still friends with to this day and I find it interesting to see the stigma that surrounds those who are disabled, those who I call my friends. People with disabilities face many obstacles in their struggle with equality. Although both men and women are subject to discrimination, women with disabilities are at a further disadvantage because of the combined discrimination based on gender and discrimination based on disability. I have been interested in the recent case happening in St. Catherines, Ontario involving Terri-Lynn Garrie against her former employer, a local packaging company that she worked at for ten years. She is developmentally disabled and was being paid only $1.25 an hour. She has been awarded 10 years worth of minimum wages after the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal found her pay was discriminatory. The tribunal went a step further, recommending the Ontario Human Rights Commission determine how widespread ... ... middle of paper ... ...t. It is only within the last decade that serious attempts have been made to identify and understand the forces shaping their lives. These attempts have mainly focused on understanding how being female and having a disability interacts and how women with disabilities view their experiences. Founded in 1981 Mobility International USA is a disability-led non profit organisation that helps to provide equal rights to those who are disabled and helps to empower them through international exchange and development. It started from an idea in a university and grew into a worldwide international voice for equal rights. This gives hope that more people are willing to change and that people are working so that what happened to Terri-Lynn wont happen as often as it currently does. What would you do to ensure that disabled people are included in society and are treated properly?

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