CRPD/C/GC/6 identity. Such data and its analysis are of paramount importance for developing effective anti-discrimination and equality measures. 35. States parties should also conduct appropriate research on disability discrimination and equality rights for persons with disabilities. Research agendas must embed persons with disabilities in research processes from the agenda-setting stage to ensure their meaningful participation in research. Inclusive and participatory research processes should ensure a safe space for participants and centre around the lived experiences and requirements of persons with disabilities. VII. Relationship with other specific articles of the Convention A. Article 6 on women with disabilities 36. Women and girls with disabilities are among those groups of persons with disabilities who most often experience multiple and intersectional discrimination. 11 Article 6 is a cross-cutting article and must be taken into account in relation to all provisions of the Convention.12 While only article 6 mentions the term “multiple discrimination”, multiple and intersectional discrimination may occur in any combination of two or more grounds. Article 6 is a binding equality and non-discrimination article that prohibits discrimination against women and girls with disabilities and obliges States parties to promote equality of both opportunity and outcomes. Moreover, article 6, like article 7, must be regarded as illustrative, rather than exhaustive, setting out obligations in respect of the two prominent examples of multiple and intersectional discrimination. B. Article 7 on children with disabilities 37. Children with disabilities often experience multiple, and intersectional discrimination. States parties must prohibit all forms of discrimination on the basis of disability that are specific to children; provide effective and accessible remedies; and raise awareness among the public and professionals to prevent and eliminate discrimination. In many States parties, for instance, children can lawfully be assaulted under the guise of “discipline” or “safety” (e.g. restraint). This physical punishment often disproportionately affects children with disabilities. States parties must prohibit all forms of corporal punishment and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of children, in all settings, and ensure appropriate measures are taken to enforce this ban. 38. The concept of the “best interests of the child” contained in article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child should be applied to children with disabilities with careful consideration of their circumstances. States parties should promote the mainstreaming of disability in general laws and policies on childhood and adolescence. The concept of best interest, however, should not be used to prevent children, especially girls with disabilities, from exercising their right to bodily integrity. It should be used to ensure that children with disabilities are informed, consulted and have a say in every decisionmaking process related to their situation. In particular, States parties should address violence and institutionalization of children with disabilities, who are denied the right to grow up in their families as a matter of discrimination. States parties should implement deinstitutionalization strategies that help children to live with their families or in alternative family care in the community. States parties should also adopt support measures to enable all children with disabilities to exercise their right to be heard, in all procedures that affect them, including in parliament, committees and bodies of political decision-making. 11 12 10 See Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women general recommendation No. 28 (2010) on the core obligations of States parties under article 2 of the Convention, para. 31. See Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities general comment No. 3, para. 12.