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Contribution by Governments

Korea

Article 6 WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES

1. States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women with disabilities.

2. States Parties shall take all necessary steps to enable women with disabilities to live in freedom, safety and autonomy by addressing the multiple discrimination and the particular disadvantages that they face on the basis of their gender and/or disability throughout their life span. These steps shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(a) Providing separate reference to the protection of the rights of women with disabilities in laws concerning women and persons with disabilities to ensure that women with disabilities are able to live with dignity in freedom, safety, and autonomy;

(b) Protecting women with disabilities from sexual exploitation, violence and abuse at home, institutional facilities and communities;

(c) Ensuring that women with disabilities are not deprived of their rights to education and providing education and skills development commensurate with their capabilities and needs;

(d) Prohibiting any discrimination on the basis of disability and/or gender in the labor market, and protection from sexual harassment at the workplace;

(e) Protecting the reproductive rights of women with disabilities including prohibition of forced sterilization, and developing policies and programs in fields such as family-planning and parenthood, pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum period that fully reflect the needs of women with disabilities.