self-recrimination and emptiness when a doctor commented that I wasn’t doing enough – a feeling that would stay with me, gnawing away at me for years to come. As disabled women and girls ...

Women constitute 75 percent of the disabled people in low and middle income countries. Women with disabilities comprise 10 percent of all women worldwide. Women are more likely than men to become ...

One area which is particularly taboo in the socially conservative country is sex, and more so the sexual needs of disabled women. Here, 41-year-old Mitra Farazandeh, who lives with disabilities in ...