Indigenous women call on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...
26 November, 2013“To address the specific situations faced by indigenous women, the collective rights of indigenous peoples must be recognized as part of protecting the individual rights of indigenous...
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FPP E-Newsletter December 2013 (PDF Version)
Forest Peoples Programme 3 December, 2013Dear Friends,What are the prospects for securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, and women in the foreseeable future?Significantly,...
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Mining the Womb of the Earth: Struggles of Indigenous Women against...
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) 11 December, 2013This publication, published by AIPP, is a collection of stories of struggle of some indigenous women in Asia who directly face the negative impacts...
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Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) New Publication: HerStory of Empowerment,...
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) 29 January, 2014‘The indigenous women’s voices and “her stories”, as an integral part of the women’s movement and indigenous peoples’ movement, remain faint. This...
View ArticleIndigenous women of the Americas fighting against discrimination
17 February, 2014Indigenous and human rights organisations from across the Americas are working together to develop a specific methodology for investigating, documenting and fighting indigenous women's...
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Indigenous Women of the Americas - Methodological and conceptual guidelines...
Multiple NGOs 17 February, 2014This document, presents guidelines for working with indigenous women, which were collectively created from experiences in Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. We hope...
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Realizing Indigenous Women's Rights: CEDAW and Indigenous Women
Helen Tugendhat & Eleanor Dictaan-Bang-oa 21 March, 2014A guide to using CEDAW to defend and protect the rights of indigenous women, published by the Asian Indigenous Women's Network (AIWN),...
View ArticleIndigenous woman representatives attend the CSW58 as a part of global...
21 March, 2014Kapeeng FoundationThe fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 10 to 21 March 2014. Each year,...
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Venezuela: indigenous women speak out against miners and armed insurgents
16 December, 2014Two indigenous women’s organisations in the Venezuelan State of Amazonas have denounced the activities of armed groups who identify themselves as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de...
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Toolkit on Indigenous women's rights in Africa
5 March, 2015Forest Peoples Programme has created this toolkit to help indigenous women in Africa to better understand the African human rights system and how to use it effectively to secure their...
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