June, 2019
On the 25th of June, 2019, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APLWD), collaboration with Asia Pacific Women with Disabilities Unites (APWWDU) hosted a webinar on ‘Women with Disabilities and the Beijing Platform for Action’.
It was an introductory webinar designed to build an understanding around the Beijing Platform for Action and giving information on how civil society, particularly women with disabilities can engage. The webinar had notable speakers from the movement such as Susan Sygall, Abia Akram, Mijoo Kim and amongst them was founder, director, Rising Flame, Nidhi Goyal. Nidhi spoke about the importance of the voices from grassroots, access to resources, access to SRHR, access women have within the movement and the need of collaborative movements with intersectional feminist movements.
