The work of the Forest Peoples Programme is to support indigenous peoples and other forest peoples to defend their human rights, in particular their collective human rights to self-determination, to their lands, territories and cultural heritage, to self-representation, and to exercise their customary law. A gendered approach immediately brings out the fact that indigenous men and women, lower status groups, the elderly and children, all experience these injustices differently. Indigenous women may be more easily deprived of lands than their menfolk, may be subject to sexual exploitation and further discriminated against when it comes to pay, education, health-care, access to justice and the other services of the State. This newsletter of the Forest Peoples Programme is entirely focused on gender.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
Forest Peoples Programme

Region
Global

Biome
Tropical

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All