A/HRC/EMRIP/2019/2
Indigenous women are overrepresented in prostitution, as in Vancouver, where 80 per cent
of prostitutes are indigenous women.92 Indigenous children face specific challenges as well,
including in enjoyment of their rights to education, health and culture, and
disproportionately experience extreme poverty, mortality, sexual exploitation,
displacement, incarceration and separation from their parents (E/2004/43-E/C.19/2004/23).
92
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Ibid.