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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS TO LAND,
TERRITORIES & RESOURCES - INDIGENOUS WOMEN
Direct Link to Full 94-Page 2013
Report:
Indigenous women's issues are
covered in multiple parts of this International Land Coalition Report.
Particularly Chapter 3.1 focuses on
WOMEN:
Indigenous Women's Rights and Access
to Land and Resources
"Indigenous women have a close relationship with their land, and play a key role in families, communities, and nations as the primary food providers.......Indigenous women’s crucial role in transforming land as a resource into life-sustaining food for their communities, traditional gender roles often limit their decisionmaking power in land use governance, and their benefits from land can easily be jeopardised, as they often do not have recognised ownership rights........Women’s access to both formal and customary land governance institutions needs to be secured, which again requires capacity-building of women, who need to be informed and learn to claim their rights, and the systems that need to learn to be responsive to women’s needs and their active engagement........."
