indigenous women's rights

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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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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