Local/Global Encounters
Development (2009) 52, 230–232. doi:10.1057/dev.2009.10
Disability Issues are Women's Issues
Mijoo Kim
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Abstract
Mijoo Kim from Women with Disabilities Arts and Culture Network, Korea, speaks on behalf of women with disabilities when she underlines that disability issues are women's issues. She asks why women with disabilities have been invisible in the women's movement, based on her work over the past 15 years in the movement of women with disabilities in Korea and internationally.
Keywords:
gender, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, discrimination, care work, alliance building
