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Women In Indigenous Traditions

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Women and Religion

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07/24/2021

The full enjoyment of indigenous women's human rights is fraught with difficulties. Indigenous women face a wide range of discrimination, including limited access to education, health care, and ancestral lands, as well as disproportionately high rates of poverty and violence, including domestic violence and sexual abuse, particularly in contexts of human trafficking and armed conflict(Baines, 2020). Globalization, as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) has pointed out, poses extra problems in many parts of the world. The loss of natural resources and the deterioration of ecosystems, their transformation into cash economies, changes in the local, social, and (Baines, 2020)decision-making processes, and a lack of national political significance have all undermined indigenous peoples' responsibilities.

In my own perception, several nations' human development indices show a rise in the socioeconomic gap between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. Indigenous men and women follow a similar path of human development and empowerment(James, 2018). "It appears to me that the important role of indigenous populations in today's global debates is to remind us all of what we have forgotten, namely that indigenous cultures are based on gender complementarity a symbiotic relationship that values both women's and men's business, ensuring mutual respect and balance."( Sadgopal, 2009) However, the rapid commercialization of indigenous economies, the rapid expansion of communications and other technology, the spread of government institutions and development actions, the inevitability of mainstream socialization and urbanization have meant that gender is an important factor that has destabilized the status of Indigenous women.

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Baines, P. (2020). Seeking justice: traditions of social action among Indigenous women in the southwest of Western Australia 1 (pp. 56-91). Routledge.

James, S. (2018). Indigenous epistemology explored through Yoruba Orisha traditions in the African Diaspora. Women & Therapy, 41(1-2), 114-130.

Sadgopal, M. (2009). Can maternity services open up to the indigenous traditions of midwifery?. Economic and Political Weekly, 52-59.