CERC Health Equity and Community Wellbeing Speaker Series: Transnational Policy Responses: Gender-Based Violence and Women and Girls with Disabilities

Please join us for the hybrid public talk “Transnational Policy Responses: Gender-Based Violence and Women and Girl with Disabilities” with Valerie Grand’Maison hosted by Dr. Karen Soldatic, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing. This event is free and open to the public.

Abstract: Women and girls with disabilities globally are more likely to experience violence, and more types of violence, than women and girls without disabilities. The forms of violence they experience include sexual, physical, financial, and psychological violence, reproductive control, as well as deliberate neglect, medical control, and institutional abuse. Experiences of violence are unique and heightened for women and girls with disabilities who are further marginalised and made invisible by systems of oppression, such as Indigenous, Black, and racialized women with disabilities, women with lived experiences of institutionalisation, and women who live with poverty.

The Engendering Disability Inclusive Development (EDID-GHDI) partnership (2020-2027) brings together researchers, decision-makers and civil society organisations from Haiti, South Africa, Vietnam, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uganda, Australia, and Malta. EDID-GHDI aims to: a) uncover, create, and share knowledge about women and girls’ struggles for and progress toward disability-inclusive development, and ask how women and girls with disabilities contribute to discussions of rights and justice; and b) engender disability-inclusive development policies to remove barriers and enable inclusion and participation.

Location

DCC-519, Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, 288 Church Street, Toronto Metropolitan University

Registration

Please register here. (external link, opens in new window) 

Accessibility

The venue is wheelchair accessible; captioning will be provided on Zoom.

For questions and access inquiries please contact Tarndeep Pannu by Septhember 13, 2024.