Indigenous Women and the Work of the United Nations System
Subtitle: Good Practices and Lessons Learned
Publisher: United Nations Pubns; United Nations
Published: April 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9789211302547
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Women's studies; USA; Sociology - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Congresses; Government policy; Indigenous women; Social conditions; Sociology
Description: 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.--Publisher's description.