A/HRC/30/41 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples pursuant to her mandate under Council resolutions 15/14 and 24/9. The Special Rapporteur provides a summary of her activities since her previous report to the Council (A/HRC/27/52) and undertakes a thematic analysis of violations against indigenous women and girls. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur A. Participation in international conferences 2. The Special Rapporteur participated in a number of international dialogues and conferences: (a) The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with which she coordinated her work, including by holding parallel meetings with indigenous peoples and organizations during their regular sessions; (b) The fourteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, held in New York in April and May 2015, during which she shared her views on indigenous peoples’ right to self-determined development and economic, social and cultural rights; (c) The international expert group meeting on an optional protocol to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in January 2015; (d) The first session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group in charge of elaborating a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, in July 2015, at which she delivered the keynote speech. B. Country visits 3. From 20 to 28 November 2014, the Special Rapporteur visited Paraguay. She noted that the country had ratified all the core international and regional human rights instruments, but observed a number of issues relating to the violations of the rights of indigenous peoples, with the foremost concern being the security of their rights to lands, territories and resources. C. Report on international investment and trade regimes 4. The Special Rapport will present a thematic report on international investment and free-trade regimes and their impact on the rights of indigenous peoples to the General Assembly at its seventieth session. III. Rights of indigenous women and girls 5. Indigenous women experience a broad, multifaceted and complex spectrum of mutually reinforcing human rights abuses. That spectrum is influenced by multiple and intersecting forms of vulnerability, including patriarchal power structures; multiple forms 3