CRPD/C/GC/3 (c) Addressing all barriers that prevent or restrict the participation of women with disabilities and ensuring that women with disabilities, as well as the views and opinions of girls with disabilities, through their representative organizations, are included in the design, implementation and monitoring of all programmes that have an impact on their lives; and including women with disabilities in all branches and bodies of the national monitoring system; (d) Collecting and analysing data on the situation of women with disabilities in all areas relevant to them in consultation with organizations of women with disabilities with a view to guiding policy planning for the implementation of article 6 and to eliminating all forms of discrimination, especially multiple and intersectional discrimination, and improving data collection systems for adequate monitoring and evaluation; (e) Ensuring that all international cooperation is disability- and gender-sensitive and inclusive and including data and statistics on women with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals, together with their targets and indicators, as well as other international frameworks. 64. States parties should take all appropriate measures to ensure the development, advancement and empowerment of women with disabilities by, inter alia: (a) Repealing any law or policy that prevents women with disabilities from effectively and fully participating in political and public life on an equal basis with others, including in respect of the right to form and join organizations and networks of women in general and of women with disabilities in particular; (b) Adopting affirmative action measures for the development, advancement and empowerment of women with disabilities, in consultation with organizations of women with disabilities, with the aim of immediately addressing inequalities and ensuring that women with disabilities enjoy equality of opportunity with others. Such measures should be adopted in particular with regard to access to justice, the elimination of violence, respect for home and the family, sexual health and reproductive rights, health, education, employment and social protection. Public and private services and facilities used by women with disabilities should be fully accessible in compliance with article 9 of the Convention and the Committee’s general comment No. 2 (2014) on accessibility, and public and private service providers should be trained and educated on applicable human rights standards and on identifying and combating discriminatory norms and values so that they can provide appropriate attention, support and assistance to women with disabilities; (c) Adopting effective measures to provide women with disabilities access to the support they may require to exercise their legal capacity, in line with the Committee’s general comment No. 1 (2014) on equal recognition before the law, to give their free and informed consent and to take decisions about their own lives; (d) Supporting and promoting the creation of organizations and networks of women with disabilities, and supporting and encouraging women with disabilities to take leadership roles in public decision-making bodies at all levels; (e) Promoting the carrying out of specific research on the situation of women with disabilities, in particular research on impediments to the development, advancement and empowerment of women with disabilities in all areas related to them; considering women with disabilities in the collection of data relating to persons with disabilities and to women in general; appropriately targeting policies for the development, advancement and empowerment of women with disabilities; involving women with disabilities and their representative organizations in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of, and training for, data collection; and establishing consultation mechanisms for the creation 16

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