Indigenous Women and Girls in Nepal: A Brief Overview
Considering the status of Indigenous Women and Girls in Nepal and the lack of concrete disaggregated data, NIDWAN has
Indigenous Perspectives of Disability
This article contributes to the discourse on disability from an indigenous perspective, an area which has not been investigated
COVID-19 and Its impact on Persons with Disabilities and Marginalized Groups in Nepal
Position Paper Prepared by Pratima Gurung and Krishna Gahatraj on behalf of National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal (NIDWAN)
Indigenous women with disabilities: in numbers
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues estimates that there are more than 370 million indigenous peoples around the world. Complementing this data, indigenous women’s organizations estimate that approximately 50 percent—roughly 185 million of the total indigenous population are women. The World Report on Disabilities estimates that 15 percent of the world’s population has a disability, on average. If this percentage is applied to the estimated 185 million indigenous women worldwide, it would be reasonable to place the number of indigenous women with disabilities at 28 million. This would be a conservative estimate, however, given that disability rates are higher among women (19 versus 12 percent in men) and also among indigenous women in different countries (ranging from 22 percent among Aboriginal women in Canada to 47 percent among Aboriginal women in Australia