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

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York United Nations 2007
Series:Economic & social affairs
United Nations publication
Subjects:
Summary: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.
Physical Description:VIII, 116 S. zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:9789211302547

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection!