Human Rights of Women and Children with Disabilities

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She faces discrimination in her community and has not benefited from government livelihood assistance programs.</p></div> </div> <div class="views-field-field-copyright-value"> <span class="field-content">© 2010 Martina Bacigalupo for Human Rights Watch</span> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="fieldgroup group-news-additional"> <div class="content"><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-upload-file"> <div class="field-label">Downloadable Resources: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122185636im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png"/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122185636/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/0912_disabilities_brochure_0.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=3842584" title="0912_disabilities_brochure.pdf">Download the Women and Children with Disabilities brochure (PDF)</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-content"> <div class="field-label">Related Materials: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="view view-reference-views-formatter view-id-reference_views_formatter view-display-id-reference_field_1 news-related-materials view-dom-id-2"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122185636/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/11/un-set-plan-women-children-disabilities">UN: Set Plan for Women, Children With Disabilities</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">September, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="node-body"><div> There are an estimated one billion people, or 15 percent of the world’s population, living with a disability, according to the World Health Organization. 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