UN CSW68 Parallel Event

Accelerating Empowerment of Indigenous Women and Girls in the Americas

On March 12, the Indian Law Resource Center joined with nine other indigenous organizations to co-sponsor a panel, "Accelerating Empowerment of Indigenous Women and Girls in the Americas," as a parallel event during this year’s 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. In addition to the Indian Law Resource Center, the co-sponsors of this event were:

Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center (AKNWRC)

Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB)

Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP)

International Mayan League

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC)

Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains

Regional Coordination of the Indigenous Peoples of San Lorenzo (CORPI-SL)

Regional Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO)

Pouhana 'O Nā Wāhine

The 90-minute virtual event featured speakers from seven organizations in Guatemala, Peru and the United States. The speakers each discussed the need for long-term sustained action in their respective regions and countries to address violence against indigenous women and factors that intensify such violence, including violations of indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands and resources and right of self-government, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, and other human rights violations.

Further details can be found at the links below, including:

Event program, including the biographies of the speakers and their organizations, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Recommendations from a cohort of the panelists in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Recordings of the event in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
PowerPoint presentations from Alaska Native Women’s Society, the Ancestral Authorities of Rtun Tinamit of Chwatutuy, and Pouhana 'O Nā Wāhine