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Declaration of the Indigenous women of CSW57


Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women, the outcomes of the twenty‐third Special Session of the General Assembly and the declarations adopted by the Commission during the tenth and fifteenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Recalling the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 22 paragraph 2, which states that States shall take measures, in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples, to ensure that Indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination, Recalling that the Commission on the Status of Women plays a key role in monitoring, reviewing and evaluating the progress made and challenges encountered in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action at all levels, and in our regions, and the intergovernmental regional and sub‐regional organizations to advance women, to ensure compliance with the commitments that governments adopt at the Commission on the Status of Women, Considering the recommendations made in the report of the meeting of the international group of experts: combating violence against Indigenous women and girls: article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, where they emphasized the inadequate statistical data on the extent of violence against Indigenous women and girls that are so important for the development and implementation of evidence‐based policy, legislative reform and judicial training, Stressing the need for an intercultural and situational analysis to address violence against Indigenous women, whereas studies on various aspects of identity and systems of patriarchal and colonial domination have interacted.




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