Indigenous Women

Unpaid Care Work: A Global Issue from the 61st Commission on the Status of Women

By / April 13, 2020

The 61st Commission on the Status of Women, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, was organized around the priority theme “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work” with an emerging issue/ focus area on the empowerment of Indigenous women. An interactive dialogue on the empowerment of Indigenous women was a part …

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Challenges Facing New Generations of Indigenous Youth

By / April 13, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]by Bianca Avila This article will explore the main challenges that new Indigenous generations continue to face. I. Struggle to protect their territory Land eviction has been a critical problem facing Indigenous communities for generations. In early 1970, the Peruvian government gave multinational companies permission to exploit the region’s oil reserves [1]. Still today, Indigenous …

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