International Women's Day 2015
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Jamila has club feet, so she's given a push through the Niger sand by a young friend ©CBM/Daniel Hayduk
March 8 is globally celebrated as International Women’s Day. The theme for this year is “Make it happen: encouraging effective action for advancing and recognising women.”
Celebrate International Women’s Day with CBM
This International Women’s Day we bring you interviews with women with disabilities working in leadership positions in human rights and development.
We have interviewed women with disabilities who are at the front line working as advocates for change – Alba Gonzalez from CBM and Dr Sonja Vasic of Handicap International.
On this Day, we celebrate these women and their roles in bringing about change for women and men and boys and girls with disabilities. It also underlines the enormous challenges that remain. The contributions highlight the urgent need to make gender equality and women's rights a reality. This will require making women rights a priority in all our actions, not just a media priority once every year.
Women are still at greater risk of disability and exclusion
International Women’s day celebrates the contribution made by women in all areas of life. Along with this celebration is also the recognition that many women continue to face discrimination and human rights violations on a daily basis. Included in this group are women and girls with disabilities who are subjected to multiple discrimination, in that they not only face discrimination and exclusion from the perspective of having a disability, but also from being a woman or girl.
CBM works with local partners around the world to deliver programmes for healthcare, community based rehabilitation and education opportunities for people with disabilities and their families and focuses on the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities. We also work in Ireland and internationally, to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in development policies.
CBM works with local partners around the world to deliver programmes for healthcare, community based rehabilitation and education opportunities for people with disabilities and their families and focuses on the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities. We also work in Ireland and internationally, to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in development policies.
Women with disabilities are agents of change 
Women with disabilities can work at the frontline 
