{"id":203319,"date":"2025-07-26T14:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-we-are-not-invisible-deaf-women-demand-action-on-rights-and-inclusion\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:47:51","slug":"zimbabwe-we-are-not-invisible-deaf-women-demand-action-on-rights-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-we-are-not-invisible-deaf-women-demand-action-on-rights-and-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;We Are Not Invisible&#8217; Deaf Women Demand Action On Rights and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Deaf women and girls in Zimbabwe are calling for urgent government action to end systemic discrimination and ensure their full inclusion in national life, according to a new policy brief by advocacy group Deaf Women Included (DWI)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The organisation warns that Deaf women face compounded marginalisation because of both gender and disability resulting in severely limited access to education, healthcare, justice and employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">This structural exclusion DWI argues, leaves Deaf women especially&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250176.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deaf women and girls in Zimbabwe are calling for urgent government action to end systemic discrimination and ensure their full inclusion in national life, according to a new policy brief by advocacy group Deaf Women Included (DWI). The organisation warns that Deaf women face compounded marginalisation because of both gender and disability resulting in severely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[6394,258,256,17456,7617,14204,17331,257,5100,254,6524,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaf","tag-demand","tag-inclusion","tag-invisible","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}