In Spain, the State Confederation of Women with Disabilities (CEMUDIS) has called for concrete measures for the protection of women and girls with disabilities from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Among other things, the entity requests guarantees of labor protection from women workers with disabilities, especially those who hold temporary jobs, as well as a network of help for entrepreneurship.
They also ask for bonuses and subsidies to hire children’s services for disabled workers who cannot telework, and are requesting an economic endowment or basic resources for the most vulnerable households in which women and girls with disabilities reside, so that they can have sanitary protection equipment, basic supplies, internet and telephony, technological devices that allow work or study to distance, or access to home care, among others.
Regarding health care, they ask to incorporate measures for their access to the specialized health and pharmacological treatments they need, as well as the free provision of information and psychosocial care services.
In educational matters, they demand that the right to education of girls with disabilities be guaranteed through personalized accompaniment in their learning progress, the provision of technological resources for their distance training and adaptation to a new normality.
These claims have been reflected in a manifesto signed by the State Confederation of Women with Disabilities (CEMUDIS), the Spanish Confederation of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities (COCEMFE), the Circle of Women with Disabilities (CIMUDIS) and the National Federation of Women with Disability of Peru (FENAMUDIP).
