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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From the UN report, with the caveat that I've replaced "sex" for "gender" where appropriate:

Discriminatory practices are also found within indigenous communities based on sex, HIV status, gender identity and sexual orientation and sex work. There is a tendency to blame and stigmatize women for HIV transmission, even in cases where women get infected as a result of sexual violence or abuse. Gender diversity, sexual orientation and sex work are often perceived as ‘alien’ to the community and the indigenous culture, which negatively impacts the ability to have a proper understanding of HIV prevention policies and results in the exclusion of certain groups within their own communities.

indigenous women often have limited participation in decision making in country level political systems, as well as in traditional decision-making forums.

The pervasive nature and high prevalence of sex-based violence in its diverse forms is one main factor explaining the multiple human rights deprivations many women, including indigenous women and girls, experience.

Sex-based violence, including physical and structural violence, may be perpetrated by states themselves against indigenous women on the basis of group membership or as part of ongoing colonialism and militarism. Violence is also perpetrated, often with impunity, within their own cultural context. This includes practices such as child marriage, forced marriage, domestic violence, acceptance of co-wives, bride price, widow cleansing, dispossession of property, limited access to land ownership and other forms of male patriarchal domination. Indigenous women are increasingly exploited as domestic, agricultural, or sex workers, and may have limited access to maternal and reproductive health services. In some countries, indigenous young women and girls, in particular, represent the most disadvantaged groups, their lives characterized by early marriage, limited schooling, frequent childbearing, social isolation, and chronic poverty.

the study provides good evidence from Latin America, Africa and South Asia and the Pacific on the higher prevalence of harmful practices affecting indigenous young women and girls (such as child marriage, forced marriage, and FGM/C).

Sounds like paradise./s

Also, the UN report did not mention a number of particularly heinous, misogynistic current customs found amongst some of the earth's indigenous peoples today: very high rates of femicide universally; very high rates of female infanticide and "passive murder" of girls under age 5 in some specific cultures; men in various indigenous communities in Africa raping young virgins supposedly in the belief it will cure the men of HIV-AIDs; the practice of "corrective" (gang) rape of lesbians (common in South Africa, but also practiced in some other places); the kidnapping of girls, then forcing them into marriage without the involvement of the girls' families (who traditionally have been the ones to force girls into marriage, usually for a price or coz doing so in some other ways would enrich and benefit families of origin); shaming, ostracizing and banishment of girls and women when menstruating.

The other thing that stands out to me about the UN report - like all such documents and press reporting on such matters - is the use of passive voice to avoid ever naming the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity. It's written as though sex-based violence, discrimination, exclusion and exploitation just happen sorta out of the blue like the weather, the change in seasons or natural disasters. Girls and women are repeatedly named as the recipients of sex-based violence, discrimination, exclusion and exploitation, but boys and men are NEVER ONCE mentioned as the people who are committing and concocting it all.

[–]VioletRemi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the kidnapping of girls, then forcing them into marriage without the involvement of the girls' families (who traditionally have been the ones to force girls into marriage, usually for a price or coz doing so in some other ways would enrich and benefit families of origin)

There is popular soviet comedy just about that, it shows it as "weird tradition" and not really shaming it. Woman is escaping that fate, thought.

It's written as though sex-based violence, discrimination, exclusion and exploitation just happen sorta out of the blue like the weather, the change in seasons or natural disasters.

UN women answered that "there no such thing as biological sex" - word to word as Amensty International. They have same (Stonewall?) manual for answers.

And if sex does not exist, then "it is impossible to say who is attacking who", even thought in 100% of cases it is men hurting women. But ofc "we don't know their gender identity, 0.6% of them can be other gender, so let's ignore rest 99.4%".