Pac Rim 2009 Info
Girls and Women’s Issues
The mission of the CDS, who hosts the annual conference, is to support the quality of life, community inclusion, and self-determination of all persons with disabilities and their families. In 2009, the Pacific Rim Conference team is putting a special focus on vulnerable populations who are less likely to be included, and whose self-determination is hampered by additional barriers, discrimination, and poverty. With our focus on the future, we want to engage our participants with gender perspectives on disability issues, and how we might address some of the challenges so that all people, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, rural or urban dweller, can live to their fullest potential.
Presentations will show best practices in health care and education from a gender perspective. They will demonstrate practices that remove barriers and provide more accessible health care. They will relate to issues in women’s physical and psychosocial well-being; specifically those areas that call attention to ending violence and abuse, poverty, and isolation for girls and women with disabilities. We will pay special attention to the “triple threat”: women of color with disabilities. Presentations include:
- Creating the future: A model service and education program for female survivors of sexual abuse
- Practice Without Pressure Opens New Horizons in Women’s Health Care
- Soul Sisters
- Micro-Finance and Empowerment of Women: Evidence from Nepal
For information on this topic area, please contact the committee members: Alok Rajouria at rajouria@hawaii.edu; Caryl Hitchcock at chh@hawaii.edu; Mellanie Lee at mellanie@hawaii.edu. For general information, please contact prinfo@hawaii.edu or call (808) 956-7539.
