Thank you Madam Chair, my name is Ms. Andy YENTRIYANI and Iám speaking on behalf of the Indonesian National Commission on Violence against Women, a specialised national human rights institution focusing on the elimination of all forms of violence against women. First of all we would like to express our appreicate to the forum organisers for the draft recommendations which are extensive and provide and invaluable tool for the advancement of minority rights, however we would like to encourage the forum to take into consideration the need to reaffirm our commitment to recongise and reflect the diverse experiences within minority groups including those of minority women, in all measures taken to implement the declaration further to recommendation number 19. We strongly believe that due to their often invisibility which also emphasised by independent experts andother in the previous sessions, there is a need to remind government and civil society to acknowledge the presence of multiple discrimination and violence faced by particular groups amongst the broader minority groups. This acknowlegement is important step in ensuring our government meet their existing commitments to combat discrimination on all bases as agains women. As also shown in [...] from one's report women and girls from inority groups are particularly disadvantaged, they are more likely to become the target of gender based violence and discriminaiton in addition to enduring the gender specific impacts of violation agains their community. First and foremost, minority women face cultural norms that discriminate against them or deter them from fully enjoying their right to participate in public life. Furthermore over the past few years, threats of rape and various forms of sexual harrassment against women have been repeatedly reported to [...] in where they have occurred in the context of attacks and acts of intolerance against religious minorities. Girls from religious minorities living in IDP camps or other shelters, have been forced into early marriage because of legal barriers, women from a number of religious minorities including local beliefs have not been able to register their marriage and consequentially endure social discrimination because they are considered to have children out of wedlock. We therfore urge the forum to reflect its affirmation to this concern into the recommendation number 22, that the government should also review and reform as appropriately any legislation or policy or practice that are discriminatory or disproportionality negatively impact on certain minority groups given particular regards to minority women. And also for the forum to adopt recommendation number 23 as here is modified, that the governments would ensure that existing remedies are easily accessible and give special attention to the vulnerability of women and other disproportionaltey affected groups within the minorities and adequate penalities are applied in the event of violations.

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