|
|
Article: Indigenous women are victims of violence at alarmingly high rates, U.N. forum finds
- Article from:
- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- March 11, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightProvided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-11-2005
Dateline: UNITED NATIONS
A human rights activist from Kenya claimed British soldiers have raped hundreds of women from her Somber tribe. A Canadian lawyer said over 500 indigenous women have died as a result of sexual violence in the last 20 years. A Nicaraguan surgeon accused Honduran soldiers and farmers of raping women from her Miskita tribe.
As a two-week meeting on the world's progress toward gender equality neared an end, indigenous women held a news conference Thursday to describe the double discrimination they are subjected to and the high level of violence it produces.
"For indigenous women, gender-based violence is ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Canada: Violence Against Indigenous Women
Amnesty International;
January 1, 2004 ;
527 words
... ... of indifference by Canadian authorities to violence against indigenous women. The Native Women's Association of Canada ... with Native communities to combat threats to indigenous women, said Amnesty International in an October ...
|
|