The Fight to End Forced Sterilization of Disabled Women and Girls in Europe - Women’s Media Center

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“Disabled women and girls have been identified as in a persistent state of crisis relating to their rights based on stereotypes, their exclusion from public life, and their treatment during humanitarian crises.”

The case was also taken to the Moldovan Supreme Court, and in 2016, Florea was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. The sentence was appealed by the prosecution, and in 2019 the doctor was“While this is an extreme case, women with disabilities in institutions and/or under guardianship are typically invisible to the justice system and to the wider public,” explained Dušková, adding that “the human rights abuses occurring in these contexts thus often remain uncovered and unpunished.

On July 6 2022, the Sexual Rights Initiative, an international coalition of organizations advocating for human rights relating to sexuality at a U.N. level, ran anabout reproductive injustice: population policies and denial of bodily autonomy. Melissa Upreti, chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, spoke at the event and characterized the forced sterilization of women and girls with disabilities as a “global phenomenon.

Subjecting somebody to forced sterilization is thought to be “easier to justify” when a woman is disabled, explains Marine Uldry, senior human rights officer at the European Disability Forum . Uldry notes that this is due to the ingrained stereotype that disabled women could not be good mothers. Uldry says that forced sterilization of women and girls with disabilities is hard to document because “it is happening more often behind closed doors.

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