Gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities

Policy Study

In order to showcase the breadth of gender-based violence and its link to gendered inequalities, FEPS and Fondation Jean-Jaurès join forces for this series of publications on the fight to eliminate sexist and sexual violence.

In this article, Pirkko Mahlamäki (European Women’s Lobby Board Member from 2016 to 2021) focuses on the various forms of violence against women and girls with disabilities.

She offers an overview of their scope and the international frameworks in place to combat them before concluding with concrete policy recommendations to tackle this multi-layered reality.

Read the Publication in English or French

This Policy Study is part of the Gender-based violence series conducted in cooperation with Fondation Jean-Jaurès to shed light on specific dimensions of gender-based violence. This series also includes:

• The Policy Study ‘Femicides: Naming the phenomenon to better combat it’
• The Policy Study ‘Sexist and sexual violence in the workplace: Lessons for public policies‘
• The Policy Study ‘Progressive pathways to a Europe free from violence against women: Mapping the EU’s institutional and policy maze’
• The Policy Study ‘Naming it, fighting it: A multi-level analysis of digital gender-based violence‘
• The Policy Study ‘Violence against lesbians, bi women and trans people: Adapting the public response to the diversity of LGBTI+ life experiences‘