assistance could also help represent minority women and their communities
whose human rights are violated.
6. Political and electoral violence against minority women. Governments
should be lobbied to enact laws to prevent electoral and political violence against
minority women in political participation.
7. Elimination of all forms of discrimination against minority women.
There exist negative cultural and religious practices that hinder minority women
political participation in some communities such as the Maasai, Somali, Sanburu
and Pokot of Kenya. Funding to educate these communities should be created and
governments should be held accountable and asked to eradicate all forms of
discrimination.
8. Enforcement of human rights laws for minority communities. Minority
women cannot succeed in politics and leadership without the support of their
communities yet many minority communities today face insecurity and risk losing
their religious and cultural identity. A good example is the case of the
. Ogiek community in Kenya where the Ogiek families are losing their ancestral home in
Mau Forest Complex saga in Kenya. Whereas it is important to safe the Mau forest,
the rights of the Ogiek community to their ancestral land is not addressed and as many
as 20,000 families will be losing their ancestral homes by December 31 government
deadline. The sad part is that the Ogiek community does not have title deeds for their
ancestral land and the government will only