The rights and personal dignity of women and girls with disabilities are not recognized at family and community level in Kyrgyzstan. Press service of the Ministry of Health reported.
According to the ministry, Bishkek hosted a presentation of research to assess the needs of women and girls with disabilities in access to reproductive health services and gender-based violence.
About 300 women with disabilities over 18 participated in the survey.
It was found out that more than a quarter of the survey respondents (26 percent) cannot make a decision to leave their homes. More than a third feel they have no right to decide whether to have a romantic or sexual relationship with a person or not. One-fifth of the respondents cannot independently make a decision on marriage (23 percent), divorce (22 percent), or their own fertility (having or not having children — 21 percent).
