Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 13

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The response of indigenous communities to attacks against self-determination has, at times, additionally subjugated the rights of women. In the battle for indigenous communities to assert their right to self-determination, women's rights have often been considered divisive and external to the indigenous struggle and connected to "external values" or "Western values" that privilege individual over communal rights. Such a false dichotomy between collective and women's rights has, paradoxically, further entrenched the vulnerability of indigenous women to abuse and violence. Indigenous women are therefore stripped of their right to self-determination by both violations against their collective rights, as members of indigenous communities, and violations against their individual rights, as sub-collectives within those communities.
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)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Indigenous Peoples, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/30/41, para. 13.
Paragraph number
13