UN Committee to Focus on the Rights of Indigenous Women and Girls

Call for submissions a golden opportunity to have your voice heard.

NWAC is working on our written submission, and urges others to do so as well. You can find out more about this exciting initiative and how to submit a document on the following UN webpage.

CEDAW makes General Recommendations on an issue affecting women that it believes states should devote more attention to. Since 1986, the committee has developed some 38 opinions on a wide scope of human rights issues. This will be the first one devoted to the rights of Indigenous women and girls.

This call for submissions is a golden opportunity for Indigenous activists to have their voice heard on the international stage.

In addition, the UN Committee is set to hold two online virtual sessions to discuss the initiative on 24 June. Registration is now open, so please consider signing up to make your thoughts known regarding the content of the future opinion. Whether you wish there to be a focus on gender equality for Indigenous women, greater recognition of the over-incarceration of Indigenous women, the need to counter domestic violence or forced sterilization against Indigenous women, or even an emphasis on cultural genocide, your opinion matters!