| Popis: |
International law in promoting the rights of women and persons with disabilities has given secondary focus to the intersectional discrimination faced by women with disabilities affected by an armed conflict. Sri Lankan legislation that provides for the design and implementation of a reparation policy for persons affected by the civil war also pays insufficient attention to experiences of women with disabilities. Sri Lanka’s cultural framework relegates them as weak, incapable and dependent on charity. This chapter asserts that women with disabilities are autonomous individuals seeking economic and social independence and justice for multifaceted injustice that they have suffered. Therefore, the primary challenge to Sri Lanka’s ongoing process to provide reparations is to overcome the prevailing cultural stereotypes that marginalize women with disabilities. The Office of Reparations faces the double challenge of transforming a socio-cultural background that gravitates towards perpetuating this marginalization and of providing women with disabilities effective redress for human rights violations suffered due to the armed conflict. In order to do so, it is essential for the reparations policy designed and implemented by the Office of Reparations to break away from the indifference and misinformation pervading the social sphere, which has a subtle, yet powerful influence on legal and administrative frameworks. |
