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Indigenous Women and the United Nations System: Good Practices and Lessons Learned

By United Nations

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9211302544, 9789211302547, 9781429497985
Open Library ID
OL12895175M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
534 kB (546615 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
126\66
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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