indigenous women

The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How Sterilization and Other Forms of Coercion Are Used Against "Unworthy" Parents

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by Marianne Møllmann, Amnesty International

November 21, 2011 - 10:48am (Print)

Coercive sterilizations and castration are at the extreme end of a spectrum that also includes criminal sanctions for drug use during pregnancy and barring LBGT individuals from in-vitro fertilization services and adoption, as well as a host of other policies geared at making pregnancy and parenting difficult for those deemed unworthy.

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Violence Against Indigenous Canadian Sex Workers

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Aboriginal sex workers are subject to dual discrimination, experience high rates of violence, including murder, and high rates of HIV among other outcomes associated with violations of their human rights.

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Reclaiming Choice for Native Women

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by Jessica Yee, Racialicious

June 22, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

As a Native woman, I am entitled to advocate for choice from within my culture, which has always valued women's choices and decision-making.

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Barack Obama and the Native Vote

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by Jessica Yee, Racialicious

November 18, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)

The leadership of Barack Obama in the United States of America is good for Native people, and you can sure as hell bet that a whole lot of us voted for him, and are counting on him to really care about the issues we are facing.
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Ackowledging Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin American Constitutions

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by Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America

June 10, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Most Latin American countries do not explicitly acknowledge sexual and reproductive rights in their Constitutions. But some Constitutional Courts have still been able to find protection for legal abortion and other reproductive health issues.
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Peru Addresses Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights

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by Karim Velasco, RH Reality Check, Latin America

May 22, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

For indigenous women in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru, giving birth at health care facilities, in the presence of strangers and lying down, is unbearable. New standards in health care delivery better respect their rights and traditions.
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