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My Sexuality, My Right. Objective Addressing and creating awareness of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Why ? Stereotypes about their sexuality Forced sterilization procedures
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Objective Addressing and creating awareness of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities • Why ? • Stereotypes about their sexuality • Forced sterilization procedures • Higher rates of sexual violence ( 30% minors / 1 man 7 women ) • Lack of comprehensive sexual education • Barriers to access sexual and reproductive health services
HOW ? Share our knowledge and experience Share tools and provide technical assistance to different actors WHAT CAN WE SHARE ? A comprehensive model that includes strategies to impact all stakeholders WHERE ? Colombia and LAC region through our regional networks
Who are we looking for ? • Donors that want to invest in the replication and /or strengthening of this practice • Health institutions that want to make their services more inclusive • Families and people with disabilities that want to talk about sexuality and reproductive rights • Partners that work on gender or disability rights
"Sexuality is often the source of our deepest oppression; it is also often the source of our deepest pain. It’s easier for us to talk about—and formulate strategies for changing—discrimination in employment, education, and housing than to talk about our exclusion from sexuality and reproduction”. Anne Finger, Forbidden fruit. New Internationalist, 233, pp. 8 –10, 1992, P. 9.
Monica Cortés Asdown Executive Director Monica.cortes@asdown.org Marta Royo Profamilia Executive Director mroyo@profamilia.org.co Natalia Acevedo Profamilia Advocacy Director Natalia.acevedo@profamilia.org.co