CEDAW Shadow Report of the Austrian Disability Council 2025

The submission at hand is mostly based on documents from the Austrian Disability Council, the umbrella organization of over 85 Member Associations representing approximately 1.4 million persons with disabilities in Austria.

This shadow report is the result of a civil society coalition led by the Austrian Disability Council with contributions from Change for the Youth, LEFÖ IBF (the intervention center for trafficked women) and NINLIL (Empowerment and counselling for women with disabilities).

Austria ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1982. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its optional protocol were ratified in 2008. Both human rights treaties are of vital importance for the human rights of women and girls with disabilities and they intersect and reinforce each other. This submission will cover articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 15 of the CEDAW.