Provides information for women with disabilities including organizing disability-friendly health care, understanding and taking care of your body, health exams, sexual health, family planning, abuse, violence and self-defence and a section for caregivers.
Community Living Winnipeg is dedicated to the enhancement of the lives and status of people who live with an intellectual disability and their families by promoting their full inclusion and participation in the community.
Provides information regarding the status of disabled women and men with an international perspective. Describes a list of social concerns along with a list of strategies for change. Concludes with a list of organizations to contact for more information.
Discusses issues of human rights law and federal legislation in relation to federally sentenced women (FSW) with mental disabilities. Concludes with recommendations for the improvement of mental health services for FSW.
Summarizes research findings that show many Canadians with disabilities are failing to get the medication or medical attention they need. Provides access to full findings.
Explores the implications of prenatal testing leading to pregnancy terminations when potential disabilities are detected. Includes other related articles.
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
Yvonne Peters
Karen Lawson
Discusses reproductive technologies and their implications for women's equality and recognition of disability rights. Explores the medicalization of disability and disability-based discrimination.
Forms a membership-based organization representing the concerns of people with all types of disabilities in Manitoba. promotes equal rights, full participation in society, and facilitates postive change through advocacy and public education.
Response to the federal and provincial/territorial government's National Children's Agenda(NCA). Concern arose because attempts at creating the NCA did not properly address the circumstances of children with disabilies. Presents research findings and policy direction developed by the Roehler Institute that responds to these concerns. Suggests the NCA needs more specific policy goals, and suggests guidelines for future NCA policy development.
