Joint Advocacy Brief: The Invisibility of Disabled Women in Taiwan Government Documents
Submitted to: UN CEDAW Committee & CRPD Committee (Joint Submission)
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1. Core demand
This joint advocacy brief calls on the Taiwan government to provide a dedicated chapter on disabled women in its next CEDAW and CRPD State Reports, with sex Γ disability disaggregated data, because both covenants' current government documents fail to adequately discuss this intersectional population.
2. Empirical basis (quantified via open-source evidence_pipeline)
This platform crawls Taiwan's CEDAW (women's) and CRPD (disability) civil monitoring agency documents, totaling 102,167 segments with FTS5 full-text indexing. For "disabled women / women with disabilities" across covenants:
| Source | Segments | % of platform | Observation |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEDAW gov't documents | 190 | 0.64% | Appears in Gender Equality Policy Guidelines, annual reports, CO responses |
| CRPD gov't documents | 0 | 0% | Disability covenant gov't documents: zero discussion |
| CRC gov't documents (for ref.) | 3 | 0.004% | Sporadic mentions, no systematic discourse |
"In Taiwan's CRPD government documents, 'women with disabilities' as an intersectional population have never received a dedicated chapter or section. This violates CEDAW GR-18 (Disabled Women) and CRPD Article 6 (Women with Disabilities), both requiring dual perspectives."
3. Relevant treaty provisions and General Recommendations/Comments
- CEDAW GR-18 (1991): Calls on States Parties to dedicate a chapter to disabled women in periodic reports
- CRPD Article 6: Women with Disabilities β States shall take appropriate measures to ensure full and equal enjoyment of human rights
- CEDAW GR-39 (2022): Indigenous women β applies to indigenous disabled women (triple intersection)
4. Cross-cutting indicators (further deterioration)
Equally zero or extremely low in related intersectional issues:
- Disability-related domestic violence: CRPD docs 1 segment (vs CEDAW 459 / CRC 515)
- Disabled indigenous women: 0 segments across all 3 covenants
- Disabled LGBTQI+: 0 segments across all 3 covenants
5. Specific recommendations
- The 5th CEDAW State Report (2026-27) should add a Disabled Women chapter with sex Γ disability data
- The 3rd CRPD State Report (planned 2027) should add a Women with Disabilities chapter with disabled women's domestic violence / sexual assault / employment / medical statistics
- Executive Yuan Gender Equality Committee + MOHW Social and Family Affairs Department should form a joint working group on intersectional issues
- CEDAW & CRPD Committees should issue joint Lists of Issues on this intersection
Co-signing NGOs: [Insert]
Cross-covenant analytical platform: cedaw.taiwanmommies.org / naer-tw.github.io/disability-rights-watch
Open-source quantitative method: evidence-pipeline Β· CC BY 4.0