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Article: International Indigenous Women's Forum declaration: "bringing indigenous perspectives to the international arena: an Indigenous Women's Conference".
- Article from:
- Women's Health Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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We, the women of the International Indigenous Women's Forum, have come together in New York on February 26 and 27 and March 12, 2005, for a three-day conference beginning just prior to the 49th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in which we will take part. Our purpose in gathering is to strengthen our skills, strategies and advocacy work on behalf of ourselves, our peoples, our communities and women's human rights globally.
We note that there have been qualitative and quantitative advances, but today, ten years after the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, halfway through the decade devoted to the achievement of the ...