Living with disability and suffering gender-based violence

The UN General Assembly in recent years has repeatedly emphasised that the genuine achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), now the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and other internationally agreed development goals, require the inclusion and integration of the rights, well-being, as well as the perspective of persons with Physical Challenges in development efforts at national, regional and international levels.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that over one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of physical challenge.

Studies have revealed that around the world, persons with physical challenges face physical, social, economic and attitudinal barriers that exclude them from participating fully and effectively as other members of the society. As the world on December 3, celebrates the International Day for Persons with Disability (PWDs), a day dedicated to highlighting issues affecti