The Role of Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in Violence Against Women with Disability

Project Member(s): Steele, L.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Women with Disabilities Australia
Women with Disabilities Australia

Start year: 2022

Summary: The specific objectives of the project are: • Evaluate guardianship law in relation to violence against women with disability • Evaluate quality and safeguarding in relation to violence against women with disability The following work program will achieve the objectives presented above: Phase 1: Draft submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, which will be co-authored by Linda Steele and Carolyn Frohmader and finalised by Carolyn Frohmader. Phase 2: Draft submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, which will be co-authored by Linda Steele and Carolyn Frohmader and finalised by Carolyn Frohmader.

Publications:

Steele, L, Frohmader, C, Siciliano, H, Rose, E & Gosden-Kaye, E Women with Disabilities Australia 2023, Our Right to Decide: Equality and Autonomy for Women with Disability: Women with Disabilities Australia Submission on Guardianship and Financial Management to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, pp. 1-186, Hobart.

FOR Codes: Law reform, Ability and disability, Gender and sexualities, International humanitarian and human rights law, People with disability, Law, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship)

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.