▪︎ Guardians of the environment

▪︎ Protectors of biodiversity

▪︎ Practitioners of unique cultures, traditions, languages and knowledge
…and much more!

This #IndigenousDay, here are 1️⃣0️⃣ things to know about Indigenous peoples and local communities: https://go.undp.org/aZiB

Paragraphs specifically pertinent to indigenous women and the girl child in the Building an Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Future with Indigenous Peoples:

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However, the implementation of these international legal instruments and United Nations frameworks has been uneven.

▪︎ Indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous children, youth, girls and women, elders, persons with disabilities,migrants and refugees, continue to face widespread discrimination and marginalization, which has been further magnified by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

▪︎ The fifth anniversary of the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples provides an opportunity for revitalizing the plan and strengthening collective and coherent United Nations system action.

▪︎ The upcoming International Decade of Indigenous Languages, which the period 2022–2032 has been proclaimed, provides an opportunity to draw attention to the critical loss of indigenous languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalize and promote them. 

▪︎ Indigenous women and girls face additional forms of discrimination and vulnerability.

▪︎ They are three times more likely to experience sexual violence compared with non-indigenous women and are particularly affected by large-scale land-grabbing and dispossession because of their unequal access to and control over land, territories and natural resources, coupled with their limited mobility, access to justice and decision-making power in the household and the community (E/CN.6/2020/3, para. 278).

▪︎ The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated these existing vulnerabilities.

▪︎ Response and recovery efforts also need to consider how indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous women and girls, are disproportionally affected by poverty and a lack of access to social protection.

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