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The Indigenous Peoples movement is vibrant and wide-spread across the world. There are a large number of international, regional, national and local organisations working for their rights. Given the particular discrimination that they encounter there are groups specifically working upon indigenous women's issues, and because they will be the future of any indigenous movement there is a focus on indigenous youth.
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) released its new publication in time for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.
The publication includes the summary report of the Asia Pacific NGO Consultation with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (UNSRVAW), Yakin Erturk and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples (UNSRIP), S.
Indigenous Women and Mining
The Philippines Report pp. 104-123
From Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development publication –
Mining and Women in Asia : Experiences of women protecting their communities and human rights against corporate mining*
by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), 2009, pp. 1-154
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