Indigenous women and the United Nations system : good practices and lessons learned

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Indigenous women and the United Nations system : good practices and lessons learned

Department of Economic and Social Affairs ; compiled by the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the Task Force on Indigenous Women/Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality

United Nations, 2007

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Indigenous women & the United Nations system

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ST/ESA/307

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Despite their enormous assets and contribution to society, indigenous women still suffer from multiple discrimination, both as women and as indigenous individuals. They are subjected to extreme poverty, trafficking, illiteracy, lack of access to ancestral lands, non-existent or poor health care and to violence in the private and the public sphere. The present publication contains cases submitted by the different UN agencies about their work with indigenous women in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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