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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | To contribute to addressing any continuing gaps in monitoring and implementing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Issues, the Special Rapporteur dedicates the present report to the issue of indigenous women and girl's rights. While recognizing the great diversity in the experiences of indigenous women, she will take a global approach, focusing on common themes and patterns experienced by indigenous women across regions. The Special Rapporteur will highlight examples of specific rights violations and issues from different countries, which are illustrative but not exhaustive. In analysing the situation of indigenous women, she will consider both the gendered forms of violations against indigenous women and the gendered effects of human rights abuses that target indigenous communities as a whole. In that way, the Special Rapporteur hopes that the forms of oppression, discrimination and violence that indigenous women face -because they are women and because they are indigenous - can be better understood. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | When examining the rights of indigenous women and girls, it is vital to consider the unique historical experiences of indigenous communities. Many forms of violence and abuse against indigenous women and girls have a strong intergenerational element. Violations of the broad right to self-determination of indigenous peoples are historically and currently endemic. Those have included gross and sustained assaults on the cultural integrity of indigenous peoples; denigration and non-recognition of customary laws and governance systems; failure to develop frameworks that allow indigenous peoples appropriate levels of self-governance; and practices that strip indigenous peoples of autonomy over land and natural resources. Those patterns of violations are vividly exemplified by colonization, but have also been perpetuated by post-colonial power structures and State practices. Those violations of the right to self-determination have been highly detrimental to the advancement of the rights of indigenous women and girls in a number of ways. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 62b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Gaps and weaknesses in some human rights and development monitoring mechanisms include:] Failure to discuss the role that intersecting forms of vulnerability and discrimination plays in violations of the rights of indigenous women and girls; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 80b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to monitoring and accountability, Member States should:] Invest in research and data collection systems to collect data disaggregated by gender, ethnicity or race, religion, language and territory or geographical area. Such data collection and research should include information on human rights violations, with particular focus on the situation of women and girls; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries 2012, para. 30 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In this connection, the Special Rapporteur would like to mention three specific ways in which indigenous self-determination may be enhanced in the context of combating violence against women and girls. While the following points are, of course, not exhaustive, they provide some reflections on the measures needed by States and indigenous peoples themselves to address concerns in this regard. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | All the provisions of the Declaration apply equally to indigenous women and indigenous men. Article 22 (2) specifically provides that States shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination. In the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, which focused on indigenous women, the participating Heads of State and Government, ministers and representatives of Member States invited the Human Rights Council to consider examining the causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls, in consultation with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and other special procedures mandate holders. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A grave gender-specific health concern is the issue of indigenous women's sexual and reproductive health. Indigenous women face many barriers to sexual and reproductive rights, such as a lack of culturally appropriate sexual and reproductive health advice, geographical access to facilities and lack of supplies, such as contraceptives, poor quality care and, in some cases, legislation banning abortion services, even in cases of pregnancy following rape. That leads to higher-than-average maternal mortality rates; disproportionate representation of indigenous girls in teenage pregnancy indexes; low voluntary contraceptive usage; and high rates of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 60c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Compelled by economic need, armed conflict and denial of self-determination and land rights in the context of major economic development projects, many indigenous peoples migrate from their home communities in rural areas to urban centres. Indigenous women and girls who leave their communities are highly vulnerable to trafficking, which can lead to multiple violations of their human rights, including severe economic and sexual exploitation and sexual violence. There are also cases of indigenous women being targeted by organized traffickers within their own communities. Reports of trafficking of indigenous women and children include the following:] Trafficking of indigenous women for the purpose of exploitation has been reported in Mexico; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 65 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The effects of those gaps and weaknesses in monitoring are compounded by systemic weaknesses in national data collection systems in relation to understanding indigenous peoples. There is the lack of disaggregated population data, which includes statistics on indigenous women within these groups. In addition, specific information on human rights violations, including those perpetrated against women, is rarely available. That has impeded understanding and comparison of situations of indigenous women and girls, as well as the development of clear accountability structures. Deficiencies in understanding and accountability are powerful barriers to effective strategies for combatting violations of indigenous women's rights. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries 2012, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Combating violence against indigenous women and girls therefore requires remedying the structural legacies of colonialism and discrimination that indigenous peoples have faced. This includes advancing the range of rights guaranteed for indigenous peoples, most prominently those enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Special Rapporteur observes that the standards affirmed in the Declaration share an essentially remedial character, seeking to redress the systemic obstacles and discrimination that indigenous peoples have faced in their enjoyment of basic human rights. From this perspective, it is important to note that the Declaration does not seek to bestow indigenous peoples with a set of special or new human rights, but rather provides a contextualized elaboration of general human rights principles and rights as they relate to the specific historical, cultural and social circumstances of indigenous peoples, including the situation of indigenous women and girls. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries 2012, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Third, there is a need for indigenous peoples themselves to continue to strengthen their own organizational and local governance capacity, and their own justice institutions, to meet the challenges faced by their communities. Indigenous peoples have a responsibility to work to rebuild strong and healthy relationships within their families and communities, and to take concerted measures to address social ills where these exist. Within their households, their communities and the broader people of which they are a part, indigenous peoples must challenge and combat any existing patriarchal social structures, continued attitudes of superiority of men over women and supposed justifications based on culture for battering or discriminating against women. In this connection, indigenous peoples must make concerted efforts to strengthen their own traditional justice systems, where these fall short of providing effective remedies to punish and prevent violence against indigenous women and girls in accordance with relevant human rights standards. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 81 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] While the Special Rapporteur appreciates the attention given to the rights of indigenous peoples within the work of other United Nations mechanisms, more consistent and geographically comprehensive analysis of the fulfilment of human rights among indigenous women and girls is urgently needed. United Nations human rights mechanisms should direct additional attention to the nexus between individual and collective rights and how that impacts indigenous women and girls, as well as how intersecting forms of discrimination and vulnerability impact human rights violations. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 79b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, Member States should:] In the context of affording indigenous people legal jurisdiction that is compatible with their rights to self-determination, develop mechanisms that allow indigenous women and girls to pursue other means of recourse against violence if they are unable to obtain support and access to justice within indigenous communities; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 85b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] [United Nations organizations and mechanisms should:] Work with Member States to develop research into underdeveloped areas which particularly impact the rights of indigenous women and girls. Research should be developed on intersecting discrimination and vulnerability and the relationship between individual and collective rights; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Overview of the activities carried during the first three-year term of the mandate 2011, para. 241 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | We are committed to promote the equal access of women and girls to education, basic services, economic opportunities and health-care services, including addressing women's sexual and reproductive health, and ensuring universal access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable modern methods of family planning. In this regard, we reaffirm our commitment to implement the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries 2012, para. 78 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A holistic approach to combating violence against indigenous women and girls requires that both their rights as women and children, and their rights as indigenous peoples, be advanced. More broadly, the rights enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which are designed to remedy the continuing legacies of discrimination against indigenous peoples, should be advanced concurrently with programmes that are designed specifically to target violence against women and girls, to tackle the structural problems affecting indigenous peoples that contribute to violence against women and girls. Lastly, indigenous self-determination in particular must be enhanced, along with efforts that are designed to prevent and punish violence against indigenous women and girls. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Despite the progress made, systematic attention to the specific vulnerability of indigenous women has remained limited in relation to the scale of abuses against them. Furthermore, what international attention has been given to the issue has not sufficiently focused on the nexus between individual and collective rights, nor on how intersecting forms of discrimination and vulnerability contribute to ongoing abuses of indigenous women's rights. That has created a gap that has contributed to ongoing widespread impunity in relation to the rights of indigenous women and girls. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 60d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Compelled by economic need, armed conflict and denial of self-determination and land rights in the context of major economic development projects, many indigenous peoples migrate from their home communities in rural areas to urban centres. Indigenous women and girls who leave their communities are highly vulnerable to trafficking, which can lead to multiple violations of their human rights, including severe economic and sexual exploitation and sexual violence. There are also cases of indigenous women being targeted by organized traffickers within their own communities. Reports of trafficking of indigenous women and children include the following:] Indigenous women in Canada are reported to be at a greater risk of trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation than non-indigenous women. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 72a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Despite the significant constraints facing them, there are many instances where indigenous women having successfully mobilized to fight for their rights. Those successes have led to the development of promising practices in relation to the respect and protection of indigenous women. The following examples of good practice are illustrative and not exhaustive:] As observed by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the tribal justice system of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the United States has an effective infrastructure to provide safety of women within their jurisdiction, including dedicated codes to address domestic violence and training for personnel of tribal law enforcement authorities, tribal courts, prosecutors and probation officers. Furthermore, tribal courts have ordered that offenders enrol in re-education programmes and tribes support programmes to encourage boys and young men to respect women; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 78g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to civil and political rights, Member States should:] Within the context of the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the development of national action plans on human rights and business, ensure that judicial mechanisms are the primary means by which corporate violations of the rights of women and girls are remedied; and avoid legitimizing voluntary, private forms of remedy that do not provide effective access to justice for violations of the rights of women; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Overview of the activities carried during the first three-year term of the mandate 2011, para. 238 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | We resolve to unlock the potential of women as drivers of sustainable development, including through the repeal of discriminatory laws and the removal of formal barriers, ensuring equal access to justice and legal support, the reform of institutions to ensure competence and capacity for gender mainstreaming and the development and adoption of innovative and special approaches to address informal, harmful practices that act as barriers to gender equality. In this regard, we commit to creating an enabling environment for improving the situation of women and girls everywhere, particularly in rural areas and local communities and among indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Those trends have a number of implications in relation to the human rights of indigenous women and girls. When looked at through a human rights lens, it is clear that many indigenous women and girls have difficulties with the law because of prior violations of their human rights. Issues associated with disregard for collective and individual indigenous rights - such as abuse of women, mental health problems and poverty - have been identified as causal factors in criminal behaviour among indigenous women. Furthermore, issues relating to indigenous women's access to justice, as discussed below, must be considered within criminal justice. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 60b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Compelled by economic need, armed conflict and denial of self-determination and land rights in the context of major economic development projects, many indigenous peoples migrate from their home communities in rural areas to urban centres. Indigenous women and girls who leave their communities are highly vulnerable to trafficking, which can lead to multiple violations of their human rights, including severe economic and sexual exploitation and sexual violence. There are also cases of indigenous women being targeted by organized traffickers within their own communities. Reports of trafficking of indigenous women and children include the following:] In a number of Asian countries, including Cambodia, India, Nepal and Thailand, indigenous women are trafficked from their communities into domestic servitude or forced prostitution; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 77b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to economic, social and cultural rights, Member States should:] Improve access by indigenous peoples, including women and girls, to culturally sensitive health-care services; learn from and build on existing examples of the good practices promoted by the United Nations Population Fund and the Pan American Health Organization to develop an intercultural approach to health; and support reinforcement of traditional healing and health practices of indigenous peoples that have been proven to be effective; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries 2012, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Throughout his work, the Special Rapporteur has heard compelling stories of suffering of indigenous women and girls caused by violence, and inspiring stories of perseverance and of steps to overcome that suffering. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 77a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to economic, social and cultural rights, Member States should:] Improve access by indigenous peoples to education, with interventions targeted towards understanding and overcoming the specific barriers faced by girls; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 77c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to economic, social and cultural rights, Member States should:] Pay particular attention to providing a range of sexual and reproductive health services to indigenous women and girls, with their free, prior and informed consent; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 48 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The variety of forms of sexual violence reflects, to some extent, the different experiences of indigenous women and girls around the world. It also reflects the multidimensional ways in which indigenous women are vulnerable to violence and the severe threat of revictimization. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 79g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, Member States should:] Build the capacity of female indigenous leaders to advocate for the rights of women and girls to freedom from violence within indigenous communities; | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Indigenous women and girls experience racism and racial discrimination as members of indigenous communities. Such violations of their rights also increase their vulnerability to other human rights abuses, as they are part of the intersecting forms of discrimination and inequality that they face. | Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Special Procedures' report |
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