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The European Disability Forum meeting at its Annual General Assembly on 15 May 2004 in Warsaw has agreed the following Resolution and decided to transmit it to all relevant stakeholders at National, European and international level:
1. EDF promotes efforts to recognize the need for gender awareness and gender-specific measures in the elaboration of the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
2. EDF General Assembly decides that the implementation of the EDF Work Programme will seek funding for sub-regional and regional workshops and seminars on the issue of rights of women and girls with disabilities and of mothers of disabled children. Results of such consultation would be included in the input to the elaboration of the International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
3. EDF General Assembly recognises the importance of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Therefore the EDF General Assembly requests that EDF approach the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women to recommend that the Committee should actively request States that are party to the Convention, with reference to CEDAW's Recommendation No. 18/1991, to include information on the situation of disabled women and girls in their periodic reports to CEDAW on the implementation of the Convention.
4. EDF General Assembly recommends that EDF Members approach their governments during the preparation of the country report to the CEDAW-Committee, with a view to demanding reporting on the situation of women and girls with disabilities, linked to more fact finding, research and seminars, in cooperation with the organizations of persons with disabilities.
5. EDF General Assembly also recommends that EDF Members approach their governments to include women and girls with disabilities and mothers of disabled children in the current Beijing + 10 review, referring to the commitments made in the Beijing Platform for Action.
6. EDF General Assembly recommends that Member organisations implement awareness-raising regarding existing Human Rights Conventions, to emphasise that both the gender dimension and disability dimension should be included in the country periodic reports. EDF General Assembly also encourages EDF Members to start producing parallel reports on Human Rights Conventions.
7. EDF General Assembly recommends that Member organisations establish and support women’s committees and networks in their respective national and regional structures, in order to strengthen the ongoing dialogue on the priority issues of women and girls with disabilities and of mothers of girls and boys with disabilities within the EDF network. The EDF General Assembly encourages EDF Women’s Committee to take active part in facilitating dialogue and networking between these committees and networks.
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