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In Focus: UN Women and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025
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Each year on 3 December, UN Women and our partners in Asia and the Pacific celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The 2025 theme is “Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress”.
Across the region, millions of women and girls with disabilities continue to face barriers that limit their access to services, opportunities and decision-making spaces. Guided by UN Women’s corporate strategy on the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities and by the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS), UN Women works with women and girls with disabilities to strengthen recognition of their rights, dismantle barriers to inclusion and expand opportunities for their meaningful participation and leadership.
“UN Women’s approach to disability inclusion is grounded in the understanding that women and girls with disabilities are rights-holders, leaders and agents of change.
A core part of UN Women’s approach is engaging directly with women and girls with disabilities and their representative organizations, ensuring their perspectives and lived experience inform and guide our efforts. We apply an intersectional lens that recognizes the diversity of women and girls with disabilities and how other identities and factors can exacerbate and shape experiences of discrimination.
Follow the discussion on social media: #IDPD2025.
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