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Tilting the Balance: Indigenous Women, Development and Access to Justice

Gender, Indigenous Women, Publications / By

Indigenous women face severe rights violations, because they are women as well as indigenous peoples. The reporting of massive violations of the collective rights of indigneous peoples especially to their land, territories and resources, do not normally account for the violence committed against indigenous women. The very struggle of indigneous peoples to defend and assert …

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Indigenous Women’s Rights enshrined in UNDRIP and CEDAW

Gender, Indigenous Women, Publications / By

Indigenous peoples are free and equal to all other peoples. Indigenous women are free and equal to all men and women. they have the right to be free from violence and any kind of discrimination in exercising their rights, in particular those based on their indigneous origin or identity. State must ensure that all women …

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Violence, customary law and indigenous women’s rights in Asia

Gender, Indigenous Women, Publications / By

It is now widely recognized that the majority of the world’s indigenous peoples live in Asia, and that Asia therefore also holds the world’s most diverse indigenous population. Collated rough country level estimates for South, Southeast and East Asia lead us to conclude that indigenous peoples may number as many as, or even more than, …

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