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Indigenous women
throughout the world are among the most marginalized groups, suffering
discrimination not only on the basis of gender but on the basis of race,
culture, and class. The complex interaction of the combined factors of
colonization, the spread of western-style capitalism, globalization,
nationalism, and top-down and paternalistic approaches to development have
provided a social and economic environment whereby indigenous women have
suffered from the effects of poverty, the breakdown of traditional social
mechanisms and institutions, violence and militarization, dislocation and
migration, and the depletion (or expulsion from) their natural
environments." - UNPFII - United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues
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HONORING INDIGENOUS WOMEN
"In struggle and solidarity with all Indigenous Women, we write about legacies, birthrights, honour, persistence, rage and rebellion."
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UN Treaties - Examples of
Specificity for Indigenous Issues - Women & Children
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 1979. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has paid a special attention to the situation of indigenous women as particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. See, e.g., General Recommendation No. 24 (Women and health). In the resolution establishing the mandate, the Human Rights Council has requested the Special Rapporteur to pay a special attention to the situation of indigenous women, and to take into account a human rights perspective in the performance of his/her mandate.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1989. Article 30 of the Convention explicitly refers to the rights of indigenous children. Under the bases of this provision, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has given particular attention to the situation of indigenous children (see the Committee’s recommendations). In the resolution establishing the mandate, the Human Rights Council has requested the Special Rapporteur to pay a special attention to the situation of indigenous children.
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UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/SRIndigenousPeoples/Pages/SRIPeoplesIndex.aspx
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