Disability in the Arab region: A challenged vulnerability

Disability is increasingly understood as a component of the international development agenda, producing rights-based approaches to disability-inclusive development. Responding to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, there has been a global push to expand the inclusion of persons with disability. Specifically, to ensure: universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning and providing information and education; and the eradication of gender-based violence, and; ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls, including the elimination of violence and harmful practices, such as child and early marriage and female genital mutilation. This research report was developed in 2021 to give an in-depth understanding of the sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights, concerns, gender disparity, gender-based violence, effects of age in order to address challenges related to disabilities in the Arab region. The research was conducted in Jordan, Palestine, Morocco and Sudan.