KABUL and girls with disabilities face high barriers, discrimination and sexual harassment in accessing government assistance, healthcare, and schools, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
The 31-page report, “‘Disability Is Not Weakness’: Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan,” details the everyday barriers that Afghan women and girls with disabilities face in one of the world’s poorest countries.
Decades of conflict have decimated government institutions . . .
