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EDID-GHDI Working Paper Series: Toward rights and justice of and with women and girls with disabilities
- Cassel, S., Robinson, K., Black, D., DeMatosAla, J., Kenyon, K. H., Wilson, L., Kahn, N., & Agyare, L. (2024). Challenges & Supports for Women & Girls with Disabilities in South Africa: Intervention Strategies & Organisational Responses During COVID-19. [Working Paper]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Garcia, F. (2026). Representing women and girls with disabilities at the COSP and UN-CSW, 2021 and 2022: ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEWS [Working Paper]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Masson, D., & Parent-Chartier, C. (2024). Representing women and girls with disabilities at the COSP and UN-CSW, 2021 and 2022: WHO REPRESENTS? [Working Paper]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
EDID-GHDI Research/Thematic Reports
- Bui, H., & Nguyen, X. T. (2023). Summary of Supplementary Data on Issues in Relation to the Initial Report of Vietnam on the Implementation of CRPD as Requested by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Lakwech, A. K. (2026). Sensitization and Collaboration with Key Stakeholders on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights for Women with Disabilities in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda. [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Lakwech, A. K., Fatuma, A., Docus, A., Umuhoza, L. P., Mansouri, K., & Baines, E. (2026). Disability and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Learning from experiences in post-conflict northern Uganda. [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Organisation of Blind Women of Benin & NGO Dédji. (2026, February 20). Hear us out! Voices of women with disabilities from Benin. Technical support from Humanity & Inclusion’s Making It Work project and financial support from EDID-GHDI.
- Robinson, K., and Cassel, S. (2026). Survey: The Roles, Needs, and Experiences of Women Caregivers of People with Epilepsy & Neurological Disorders in South Africa [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
Publications
- Abay, R. A., & Soldatić, K. (2024). Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender. Routledge.
- Archambault, Virginie. (2023). QU’EN DIT LA RECHERCHE? Mieux comprendre la réalité des femmes handicapées par l’intersectionnalité – Entretien avec la Professeure Dominique Masson. Paraquad. Le magazine de Moëlle épinière et motricité Québec (MEMO-Qc), 161(27–30).
- Baranyi, S. (2023). Disabled persons organisations’ advocacy for SDG 16+: Levers for change and/or drops in a neo-liberal bucket? In T. Donais, A. D. Edgar, & K. Van Houten (Eds.), Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace (1st ed., pp. 83–100). London: Routledge.
- Baranyi, S., & Pueugue Simo, A. (2023). Le plaidoyer des organisations de personnes handicapées pour l’ODD 16+. Revue internationale des études du développement, 253(3), 120–142. (Open access).
- Black, D. R., & Stienstra, D. (2024). Change-making in disability, peace, and development: Lessons from the life and legacy of Steven Estey. In K. Van Houten & A. Neve. (Eds.), Hand in Hand? Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus, Canada and International Affairs (pp. 129–145). Palgrave MacMillan.
- Brayton, B., Stienstra, D., & Delorme, A. (2023). Women and Girls with Disabilities: A Briefing Paper on ODA at the Crossroads of Disability and Gender. Humanity and Inclusion Canada.
- Buyer, M., Macharia, A., Nduta, S., & Delorme, A. (2023). Economic inclusion of refugees with disabilities in Kenya. Au Courant, 10.
- Cassel, S., Robinson, K., Black, D., DeMatosAla, J., Kenyon, K. H., Wilson, L., Kahn, N., & Agyare, L. (2024). Challenges & Supports for Women & Girls with Disabilities in South Africa: Intervention Strategies & Organisational Responses During COVID-19. [Working Paper]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Chalklen, S. (2023). Are African organizations of persons with disabilities really included on the ground? Au Courant, 11.
- DAWN Canada. (2022). More Than a Footnote: Policy Forum Summary Report 2022. A report from DAWN Canada, Global Affairs Canada, and Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development (EDID).
- Dessipe, V. (2024). The sexual agency of Haitian women with physical disabilities [Master’s thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal]. http://archipel.uqam.ca/id/eprint/18110 (in French; see English abstract)
- Donais, T., Edgar, A.D., & Van Houten, K. (Eds.). (2023). Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace (1st ed.). London: Routledge.
- Garcia, F. (2026). Representing women and girls with disabilities at the COSP and UN-CSW, 2021 and 2022: ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEWS [Working Paper]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Grand’Maison, V. (2024). Resisting invisibility in healthcare responses to gender-based violence: A content analysis. Health Sociology Review, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2350510.
- Grand’Maison, V., Reinders, H. K., Pin, L., Abbas, J., and Stienstra, D. (2023). Cumulative and cascading impacts of invisibility: An intersectional approach to understanding the housing experiences of Canadians with disabilities during COVID-19. In A. Carey, S. Green & L. Mauldin (Eds.), Research in Social Science and Disability, Volume 13: Disability in the Time of Pandemic (pp. 31–48). Emerald Publishing.
- Grand’Maison, V., & Soldatić, K. (2024). Stigma as a structure of disablement: Towards collective postcolonial justice. In R.A. Abay, & K. Soldatić (Eds.), Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender (pp. 137–155). Routledge.
- Kenyon, K.H. (2022). Learning Case: Cape Town’s Quest for Accessible Transportation. International Centre for Local Democracy (Sweden).
- Lakwech, A. K. (2026). Sensitization and Collaboration with Key Stakeholders on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights for Women with Disabilities in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda. [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Lakwech, A. K., Fatuma, A., Docus, A., Umuhoza, L. P., Mansouri, K., & Baines, E. (2026). Disability and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Learning from experiences in post-conflict northern Uganda. [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Louis, I., & Baranyi, S. (2023). Humanitarian action and persons with disabilities in Haiti. Au Courant, 6.
- Masson, D. (2022). Feminist theories of disability in English-speaking countries: Mapping Feminist Disability Studies. Travail, genre et sociétés, 48, 89–109.
- Masson, D., Baranyi, S., & Louis, I. (2024). Between the disability movement and the feminist movement: Intersectional mobilizations of women with disabilities in Haiti. In S. Meyers, M. McCloskey, & G. Petri (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Human Rights Hierarchies (1st ed., pp. 493–511). London: Routledge. (EDID partnership members can request access)
- Masson, D., Baranyi, S., & Louis, I. (2021). Entre le mouvement des femmes et le mouvement des personnes handicapées : Mobilisations intersectionnelles des femmes handicapées en Haïti. Equitas – Développement humain, handicap et changement social, 27(2), 69–85. (EDID partnership members can request access. See English version, Masson et al. 2024)
- Masson, D., & Parent-Chartier, C. (2024). Representing women and girls with disabilities at the COSP and UN-CSW, 2021 and 2022: WHO REPRESENTS? [Working Paper]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- McClain-Nhlapo, C. V. (2023). How to implement disability-inclusive development. Au Courant, 3.
- Nguyen, X. T. (2023). Decolonizing research with girls with disabilities in the Global South. In R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Ercikan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (4th ed., pp. 124–133). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.08017-9.
- Nguyen, X. T. (2024). Towards a decolonial approach to disability as knowledge and praxis: Unsettling the ‘colonial’ and re-imagining research as spaces of struggles. In R. A. Abay, & K. Soldatić (Eds.), Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender (pp. 233–251). Routledge.
- Nguyen, X. T., & DP Hanoi. (2024). Vietnam Case Study: EDID-GHDI Fact Sheets. [Fact Sheet]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Nguyen, X. T., Mitchell, C., & Bernasky, T. (2022). Qualitative visual methods in research with girls and women with disabilities in the Global South. In M. H. Rioux, J. Viera, A. Buettgen, & E. Zubrow (Eds.), Handbook of disability (pp. 459–476). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1278-7_16-1.
- Nguyen, X. T., & Stienstra, D. (2023). An intersectional approach to disability-inclusive development. Au Courant, 5.
- Nguyen, X. T., & Stienstra, D. (2021). Engaging girls and women with disabilities in the global South: Beyond cultural and geopolitical generalizations. Disability and the Global South, 8(2), 2035–2052. (Open access).
- Organisation of Blind Women of Benin & NGO Dédji. (2026, February 20). Hear us out! Voices of women with disabilities from Benin. Technical support from Humanity & Inclusion’s Making It Work project and financial support from EDID-GHDI.
- Pothier, K., & Reinders, K. C. (2024). Complex erasures: Re/Production of disability under settler colonialism. In E. Grafton, J. Melançon, A. Parker, & I-O. Fasunhan (Eds.), Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths. University of Regina Pressbooks.
- Robinson, K., and Cassel, S. (2026). Survey: The Roles, Needs, and Experiences of Women Caregivers of People with Epilepsy & Neurological Disorders in South Africa [Report]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Stienstra, D. (2020). Troubling Activisms: Canada and transnational disability activism. In K. Soldatic & K. Johnson (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy (pp. 298–314). Routledge. (EDID partnership members can request access)
- Stienstra, D. (2022). (Th)reading rights and justice: Women and girls with disabilities. Global Society, 37(3), 354–374.
- Stienstra, D. (2024). Reflecting on the how questions: Using intersectional methods for policy changes. In R.A. Abay, & K. Soldatić (Eds.), Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender (pp. 252–268). Routledge.
- Stienstra, D. (2025). Bringing feminist disability knowledge to Canada’s global policies. International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 80(4), 545–563.
- Stienstra, D. (2025, July 16). Disability, Disability Rights, and IR. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. https://oxfordre.com/internationalstudies/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.001.0001/acrefore-9780190846626-e-919
- Stienstra, D., & Estey, S. (2016). Canada’s responses to disability and global development. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 1(3), 382–395.
- Stienstra, D., Grand’Maison, V., Pin, L., Rodenburg, E., Garwood, K., & Reinders, K. (2021). Disability inclusion analysis of lessons learned and best practices of the Government of Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prepared for Employment and Social Development Canada. Live Work Well Research Centre. (Access the final report and fact sheets)
- Stienstra, D., & Nguyen, X. T. (2020). Opening to the possible: Girls and women with disabilities engaging in Vietnam. In L. Levac & S.M. Wiebe (Eds.), Creating Spaces of Engagement (pp. 139–160). University of Toronto Press. (EDID partnership members can request access)
- Stienstra, D., & Pothier, K. (2022). Shadow Report for United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Experiences of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people with Disabilities. Native Women’s Association of Canada.
- Van Houten, K., & Edgar, A. D. (2023). Peaceful, Just, Inclusive? Unpacking the SDG 16 Agenda. Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace (1st ed., pp. 1–8). London: Routledge.
- Van Houten, K., & Garcia, F. (2025). Finding Their Place: Towards the Inclusion of Women with Disabilities in UN-led Peacebuilding Efforts. [Brief]. EDID-GHDI, University of Guelph.
- Van Houten, K., & Neve, A. (2024). Hand in Hand? Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus. Canada and International Affairs. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Van Houten, K., & Ross, S. (2023). Access to Justice, the Rule of Law, and SDG 16: From Normative Struggle to Evolution. Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Uncertain Future of Peace (1st ed., pp. 65–80). London: Routledge.
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