After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses against people with disabilities. Australia's Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability found thatmore than half of Australians with disabilities ages 18 to 64 have experienced physical or sexual violence. Seventy-two percent of women with psychosocial (mental health) or cognitive disabilities have experienced violence since the age of 15, compared to 54 percent of women with other disabilities.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/04/australians-disabilities-face-pervasive-abuse

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