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FYI From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of WUNRN ListServe Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:10 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Women with Disabilities - Open Letter to UN Women for Inclusion WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com Open Letter to UN Women: Addressing the Needs of Women with Disabilities http://sites.google.com/site/womenenabled/home Direct Link to Open Letter, by Stephanie Ortoleva, Esq.- Open Letter to the UN Under-Secretary-General for UN Women "Addressing the Needs of Women with Disabilities in UN Women" Letter is accessible via the WomenEnabled website: http://sites.google.com/site/womenenabled/home This 43-page Open Letter strongly supports the expanded inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in the work of UN Women and accepts UN Women Under-Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet's invitation for partnership with women with disabilities, as offered in her 24 January 2011 speech to the UN Women Executive Board. The document offers concrete suggestions for the meaningful inclusion of women and girls with disabilities as UN Women develops its plans of action and in all of the publications, programs and activities of UN Women. This paper also invites UN Women to specifically and concretely include women and girls with disabilities in the Strategic Plan to be presented to the UN Women Executive Board in June 2011 and to include women with disabilities as part of the NGO Advisory Group to be appointed by Ms. Bachelet. Women and girls with disabilities, including the letter author, and our Disabled Persons (Womens) Organizations are available to support this work. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.