Joint Written Statement On the Situation Of Indigenous Women In Nepal to the 57th Session Of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
This written statement is respectfully submitted by National Indigenous Women’s Federation (NIWF), Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP, National Coalition Against Racial Discrimination (NCARD) and Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) to the Commission on the Status of Women (hereinafter the Commission) and relates in part to the 57th Session’s priority theme of ‘the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’. It seeks to present political and economic context, evidence, current state of practice and gaps and challenges regarding rights of indigenous women and girls, including some recent cases, with reference to the submission made by NIWF, LAHURNIP and FPP to the 56th session of the Commission to reinforce the recommendations made in the submission (adapted from an original Shadow Report for the combined 4th and 5th Periodic Reports of Nepal CEDAW/c/NPL/4-‐5, July 2011).
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