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Rights of indigenous peoples, including their economic, social and cultural rights in the post-2015 development framework 2014, para. 71

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When looking at available socioeconomic data disaggregated by ethnicity and gender, there is no doubt that indigenous women experience particular and interrelated forms of discrimination because of their indigenous identity and their gender. Gender-based discrimination is a sad reality in most countries, and it is also found within some indigenous societies where, for example, women may not traditionally have participated in governance institutions or where girls are not encouraged to study. In short, many indigenous women still face additional gender-based discrimination, which leads to disadvantages, marginalization and, in extreme cases, to violence, physical mutilation, trafficking, prostitution and restricted access to justice. On the other hand, there is ample documentation of the strong and crucial roles played by indigenous women in many areas of life, including food production, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, transmission of languages, culture and knowledge, conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 47c

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[Indigenous women are significantly more likely to experience rape than non-indigenous women. It has been estimated that more than one in three indigenous women are raped during their lifetime. Behind these shocking statistics are multiple forms of sexual violence against indigenous women by a multitude of actors in different geographical regions. Coordinated and comparative information on sexual violence is very limited, due in part to significant underreporting and a lack of investment in disaggregated data collection that include indigenous women and communities. That makes analysis of systemic level prevalence and trends very difficult. Different forms of sexual violence have been reported, including the following:] Women have reportedly been subjected to harassment, extortion and rape by State officials at border crossings. For example, Miskito women, whose territories straddle Nicaragua and Honduras and who cross national borders every day to work their lands or to gather medicinal plants, are routinely exposed to sexual violence. In addition, military officials may perpetrate sexual violence as a weapon to weaken the resolve of indigenous communities in militarized disputes over land and resources;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 85e

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[Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] [United Nations organizations and mechanisms should:] Work with indigenous women to strengthen analysis of both collective and individual indigenous rights within the monitoring of the Beijing Platform of Action.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 85d

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[Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] [United Nations organizations and mechanisms should:] Ensure that the concerns of indigenous women and girls are included within the post-2015 framework;
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 85c

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[Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] [United Nations organizations and mechanisms should:] Recognize the agency of indigenous communities, women and girls as development actors within the sustainable development goal for development partnerships;
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 84

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[Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] The Human Rights Council should, as it was also invited to do in the outcome document of the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, consider examining the causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls, in consultation with the Special Rapporteur and other special procedures mandate holders.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 83

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[Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] In addition, as invited to in the outcome document of the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the Commission on the Status of Women should consider the issue of the empowerment of indigenous women at a session.
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 82

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[Recommendations to United Nations organizations and mechanisms] In the context of this increasing attention to indigenous peoples, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women develop a general comment on the rights on indigenous women and girls.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 79d

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[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, Member States should:] Ensure that all forms of violence against women, including female genital mutilation and child marriage, are included as violations within criminal law;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 79c

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[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, Member States should:] Balance respect for the right to self-determination of indigenous communities with their responsibility to protect indigenous women and girls in their capacity as national citizens and rights bearers;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 78h

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[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to civil and political rights, Member States should:] Ensure that due process is undertaken in relation to all indigenous women who enter the criminal justice system;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 78f

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[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to civil and political rights, Member States should:] Provide legal aid, interpretation and translation services, and culturally sensitive information about their rights and available remedies to all indigenous women and girls;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 78c

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[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to civil and political rights, Member States should:] Explore ways to invest in the leadership capacity of indigenous women so that they can play more active roles in indigenous decision-making structures to protect women and girls within their communities;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 78b

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[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to civil and political rights, Member States should:] Develop interventions to increase the number of indigenous women in national and local political and public processes and explore the feasibility of implementing quota systems for indigenous women's representation in local and national politics;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 77c

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[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;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 76

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The United Nations system must support Member States in striking that balance, as well as contribute to the paradigm shift needed through increasing attention to the needs of indigenous women and reconceptualizing rights issues to include the nexus between individual and collective rights, as well as the intersectionality between different forms of inequality and discrimination.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 72b

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[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:] Numerous tribes, such as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, maintain the practice of banishing perpetrators of violence against women from their tribal jurisdictional boundaries. That has proven to be an effective sanction which prevents women and their children from being forced to flee their home due to violence. Banishment is a serious community sanction that cuts off perpetrators and sends a strong message about the protection of women and children in the community. Several Kankanaey Igorot communities in the Cordillera region of the Philippines have customary laws that banish members who have committed rape. Thus, in those communities, incidences of rape are very low compared to urban areas and other provinces. The women of some Kalinga Igorot villages in the same region have succeeded in convincing their traditional leaders to abolish the discriminatory practices of bride price, dowry and arranged marriages;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 58

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Domestic violence can have grave consequences for victims, including mental health problems, substance abuse, severe health issues and difficulties in providing care to children. Those consequences may be felt more acutely by indigenous women owing to lack of access to support services and justice, as well as their specific cultural and economic circumstances.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 57

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Information on domestic violence is limited due to underreporting and lack of investment in data collection. Nonetheless, available data suggests that indigenous women are significantly more likely to be victims of domestic violence than non-indigenous women.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 53f

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[Examples of violence against women in a military context include the following:] In north-western Kenya, British soldiers stationed in the area since the 1980s have reportedly raped more than 1,400 Masai and Samburu women. Rape survivors and their families still suffer from the legacy of those attacks, such as stigmatization of families with mixed-race children.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Families
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 53d

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[Examples of violence against women in a military context include the following:] In Fiji, India, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand and Timor-Leste, the militarization of conflict over indigenous land has led to gang-rape, sexual enslavement and killing of tribal women and girls;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 53b

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[Examples of violence against women in a military context include the following:] In Bangladesh, indigenous women face multiple forms of discrimination and there is a high prevalence of sexual violence, including as a weapon in community conflict in rural areas;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 53a

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[Examples of violence against women in a military context include the following:] In Colombia, indigenous women and girls are commonly subjected to patterns of rape, forced prostitution and exploitation in the context of occupation of indigenous land;
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 52

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As noted by the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the situation of indigenous women and girls is particularly critical in the context of armed conflict, given that they are already exposed to multiple forms of discrimination. That again shows the impact that intersecting forms of inequality and discrimination can have on indigenous women.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 51

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Indigenous women are often caught in the crossfire of conflict situations and subjected to militarized violence. Conflicts may be between different ethnic groups and may also involve government forces and business actors. Indigenous women and girls have been victims of gender-based violence in conflicts for example in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines and Nigeria.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 48

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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.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 43

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Indigenous women are routinely denied their right to remedy for abuses of their human rights. There is a historical and group dimension to the denial of women's right to remedy. The failure of Governments to acknowledge and provide remedy for historical abuses of indigenous communities contributes to the ongoing vulnerability of indigenous women.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 37

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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.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 24

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Indigenous peoples, in particular women, tend to have low levels of educational attainment and literacy compared with non-indigenous populations. That situation is a violation of the right to everyone to an education. Such violations of the rights of indigenous persons to an education are multi-dimensional and brings into consideration the issues of access, quality and inclusion.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 17

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External threats to indigenous land rights are not the only cause of abuses of women's rights in relation to land. The roles that women hold within indigenous communities and the way that some indigenous property frameworks reflect patriarchal power structures. Indigenous women commonly experience significant barriers to holding and inheriting land. especially when they are widowed.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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