GSFS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Divine Judgment, Extreme Poverty, Sexual Assault

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 303
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Disability and cultural contexts: violence against disabled women in india one of biggest problems they have, the many forms of inclusion and exclusion. Indian women leaders on disability rights in global context. Disability understood as the relation between body functions and the sociopolitical and economic context, is interpreted differently in every context: rural contexts. One of main forms you can find in rural countries. Women with disabilities particularly left out of the game. Children in marginalized communities will be marginalized further if have disability. Most indigenous peoples have different approaches to disability and do not have specific language to refer to pwds. Human rights systems are perceived as another form of colonialism and creates clashes with traditional practices. There are no statistics on how many pwds in the world exist. They are among the poorest of the poor, segregated within their own communities: world conference on indigenous peoples (2014) Advocacy from within the embrace the values of the crpd.