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(e) The Special Rapporteur was a panellist on the Human Rights Council
high-level panel on human rights and climate change in March 2015;
(f) In April 2015, she took part in the World Bank Global Dialogue with
indigenous peoples, where she made opening remarks and held meetings jointly
with indigenous leaders and the president, executive directors and senior
management of the World Bank;
(g) In July 2015, she delivered the keynote speech at the first session of the
Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnatio nal corporations and
other business enterprises with respect to human rights;
(h) In September 2015, she took part in the World Conference on Indigenous
Peoples and spoke at a panel addressing coherence among the United Nations
bodies, programmes, agencies and funds in relation to indigenous peoples’ issues.
B.
Country visits
4.
Between 20 and 28 November 2014, the Special Rapporteur visited Paraguay.
In her end-of-mission statement 1 she noted that the country had ratified all the core
international and regional human rights standards, but observed a number of issues
related to the violations of the rights of indigenous peoples. She observed that the
foremost concern of indigenous peoples remains the security of their rights to lands,
territories and resources. She discussed how Paraguay has experienced an
exceptional rate of economic growth but how that had come at the expense of large scale environmental destruction and some violations of indigenous peoples ’ rights
and has not led to significant reductions in the poverty levels of indigenous peoples.
She also commented on the lack of social services available to indigenous peoples
as part the absence of the State within some indigenous communities, as well as
significant barriers faced by indigenous peoples when seeking access to justice.
C.
Report on the rights of indigenous women and girls
5.
The Special Rapporteur reported to the thirtieth session of the Human Rights
Council. Her thematic report (A/HRC/30/41) was on the rights of indigenous
women and girls, where she highlighted how they suffer from a complex spectrum
of mutually reinforcing and interconnected violations of their collective political,
civil, and economic, social and cultural rights. Collectively, those rights violations
constitute a form of structural violence against indigenous women and girls, which
reinforces other forms of violence they commonly experience. She recognized the
slight increase of attention to the rights of indigenous women and girls within some
United Nations agencies and mechanisms and asserted that both a paradigm shift
and a multidimensional approach is needed to improve the situation of women and
girls. In the report, the Special Rapporteur made a series of recom mendations to
both Member States and United Nations organizations.
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