Sexual violence against women with disabilities in Ghana: Accounts of women with disabilities from Ashanti Region

OPOKU, Maxwell Peprah

et al

Publication Date

2016

21 p

This exploratory study aimed to document the causes and consequences of sexual violence against women with disabilities in Mampong Municipality of Ashanti region in Ghana. The 41 participants, made up of women living with intellectual, visual and hearing disabilities, were interviewed using convenience and snowball sampling techniques

Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development (formerly Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal) Vol. 27, No.2, 2016

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http://dcidj.org/article/view/500

Keywords

Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; women with disabilities; Human rights; freedom from exploitation violence and abuse; functional limitation: visual; functional limitation: cognitive/ intellectual; functional limitation: hearing

Regional Focus

Africa (AFRO)

Country focus

Ghana

Language

English

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