Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 19a
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- [High unemployment is an important issue in relation to the poverty experienced by indigenous communities, as indigenous peoples are disproportionally represented within the world's unemployed. When indigenous people are employed they often face wage discrimination and exploitation in the workforce, which further fuels poverty. The following are some examples of those trends:] In Australia, the indigenous unemployment rate was 15.6 per cent in 2006, that is, just over three times higher than the non-indigenous unemployment rate, while the median indigenous income was around half of the non-indigenous income;
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/30/41, para. 19a.
- Paragraph number
- 19a
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