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Women with disabilities worst sufferers of discrimination

Speakers tell view exchange meet

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a
meeting yesterday said though the women rights movement has a wry positive impact on women empowerment in South Asian region, it make* less impact on the physically challenged women who are still lagging behind.
They said the women with disabilities are more marginal in the regional countries. Being women and physically retarded, they are the worst victims of discrimination in society.
Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable (SARP V Bangladesh) in association with the DFID organised the meeting on 'Sharing experiences of women with disabilities' at Biam auditorium in the city.
"Though the National Policy for Persons with Disabilities 1995 specifies 10 percent quota for the persons with disabilities, I was deprived of getting the job of an assistant teacher at a primary school.” said Tanjeda Parveen, a physically challenged woman who qualified in both the written and viva voce.
"Rather, the board members criticised me, saying that I won't be able to teach the students properly being a physically challenged person." she alleged, pointing to social discrimination and rights violation.
Highlighting the importance to address the issues of women with disabilities nationally, the speakers recommended that the quota system in the government and non-government sector be implemented, the rules of business be changed
and Bangladesh Disability Welfare Act 2001 beamended.
• They also called on the ^bvernment .to ensure; free, higher education for the women with disabilities as well as to include their issues in the National Women's Development Policy.
Speaking as the chief guest. .Meher Afroze Chumki. chairperson of the parliamentary standing committee on ministry of women and children affairs, said the present government talks about positive change and it is not possible by sidelining the women with disabilities.
“Restoration and reformation of the National Women's
Development Policy will take place soon and the issues of women with disabilities will be incorporated there,” she said, adding that the budget allocation for them also needs to be increased.
Director General of Secondary and Higher Education Prof Md Noman Ur Rashid, Director of Association for Women with Disabilities-India Khuhu Das, President of AKASA Sri Lanka Kamala and Director (Programme) of SARPV Sukumol Roy also spoke amongothers.
Project Officer of SARPV Jolly Kaw'ser presented a keynote paper.