The focus on Austria's women's rights: Cedaw report warns for action!

The focus on Austria's women's rights: Cedaw report warns for action!

On March 6, 2025, the serious defects in dealing with the rights of women and girls with disabilities in Austria will be pointed out for World Women's Day. Daniela Rammel, the chair of the independent monitoring committee, emphasizes: "We are pleased that disabilities have been so incorporated into the questionnaire. This is particularly relevant because the monitoring report on the UN Women's Rights Committee (CEDAW) shows difficult deficits and at the same time demands an urgent need for action, such as ots.at reported.

However, significant progress indicates: The new questionnaire that the United Nations published, addresses the situation of women with disabilities more comprehensively than in the last exam in 2019, since they were even dedicated to their own section. This questionnaire calls for the states, including Austria, to comment on existing problems and to present measures that were taken to improve the situation. In addition, numerous reports from civil society and the public prosecutor's office were used for the creation of the questionnaire, such as monitoring committee.at Notice.

The Republic of Austria must now react to the worked question catalog within a year, which exerts additional pressure on political decision -makers. These developments underline the importance that the protection of women and girls with disabilities in international framework works and increase the pressure to act to the national authorities.