After 25 years of activism, still a pressing issue most people do not see

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Length: 0:28:49
Uploaded: 6 Dec, 2010

Recording Date: 6 Dec, 2010
Recording Location: Melbourne, Denver, Vancouver
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #32-10 Violence Against Disabled Women by Jean Parker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at womenontheline.org.au.
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Program Title: WINGS #32-10 Violence Against Disabled Women
Description: For women with disabilities, violence by caregivers is both very serious and all too common. Special barriers, both physical and attitudinal, can make it especially hard for them to exit the situation. Activists are determined to make shelters and services responsive.

Host(s): Jean Parker
Featured Speakers/Guests: Gill Hague, co-director of the Violence Against Women Research Group at the University of Bristol, UK; Sharon Hickman, founder, Domestic Violence Initiative for Women with Disabilities, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Credits: Gill Hague's speech to the 4th Forensic Disabilities Conference in Melbourne produced by Rachel O'Connell of Women on the Line; interview with Sharon Hickman (1995) courtesy of Disability Radio Worldwide Archives.

Comments: To contact Disability Radio Worldwide Archives, email "Jean Parker" ,