WUNRN
Minority Rights Group International
Why
Gender?
The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said, ‘to every human rights violation there is a gender element.’ When that element is combined with being from a minority, the violence, discrimination and marginalization women or men experience is made even worse.
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Gender,
Minorities & Indigenous Peoples
A4, 40pp, ISBN 1 904584 22
5 August 2004
While it is generally acknowledged that women suffer discrimination, women
who are also members of minority or indigenous communities are particularly
marginalized. Like male members of minority and indigenous communities, they
lack access to political power and face discrimination in their access to
services and rights. However, as women they face these problems and more.
The aim of this report is to encourage those working on minority and indigenous
peoples’ rights to consider the issues from a gender perspective, and to
encourage those working on gender equality and women’s rights to include
minorities and indigenous peoples within their remit.
This report will be essential reading for anyone interested in issues of gender
and the human rights of minorities and indigenous peoples.
This report is also available in French .
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UN General Assembly - Resolution
47/135 - 18 December 1992
DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS
BELONGING TO NATIONAL OR ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC MINORITIES
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FULL RESOLUTION IS ATTACHED.
5. Urges States and the
international community to promote and protect the rights of persons belonging
to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities as set out in the
Declaration, including through the encouragement of conditions for the
promotion of their identity, the provision of adequate education and the
facilitation of their participation in all aspects of the political, economic,
social, religious and cultural life of society and in the economic progress and
development of their country, without discrimination, and to apply a gender perspective
while doing so;
6. Calls upon States to give special
attention to the promotion and protection of the human rights of children
belonging to minorities, taking into account that girls and boys may face
different types of risks.
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