A/HRC/30/41/Add.1 complaints when they are the victims of criminal offences or witnesses of such offences, including drug trafficking and trafficking in persons. 70. The Special Rapporteur was informed of various initiatives taken by indigenous women’s organizations, such as the Articulación de Mujeres Indígenas del Paraguay (Network of Indigenous Women of Paraguay), which adopted the Asunción Declaration in 2014 in order to set forth their problems and demands. 23 71. Owing to a lack of disaggregated data, it is difficult to assess the situation of indigenous women in the country. There are no disaggregated data in the first country report on violence against women, which makes it difficult for them to ensure that their specific needs are reflected in the preliminary bill on this subject being prepared by the Ministry. The lack of such data also hinders the work of the Inter -Agency Board on Human Trafficking and other initiatives that could play a very useful role in addressing some of the issues that they raised. 72. Paraguay has recently established the Ministry for Women ’s Affairs. The Ministry has a special unit whose work focuses on facilitating the direct participation of indigenous women, 24 and this unit is drafting a protocol for working with women from the Ayoreo Totobiegosode community of Chaidi. The Ministry provided general information to the Special Rapporteur on a project to promote the breeding of goats for meat and milk as a means of diversifying the production of high -protein foods for indigenous families in the Chaidi community, raising household incomes and consolidating the food security of the community. The Special Rapporteur hopes that this institutional platform and the above-mentioned project will be given the necessary support and resources so that new and ongoing initiatives will be able to address the specific problems faced by indigenous women in Paraguay. G. Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation or initial contact 73. The Special Rapporteur received information about the presence of gr oups living in voluntary isolation in the Chaco and the Eastern Region who belong to the Ayoreo and Mbyá Guaraní peoples, as well as about the Ayoreo Totobiegosode groups, who can be considered as being in a situation of initial contact. She was also infor med about the serious threats posed to groups in isolation by the relentless spread of deforestation and the privatization of the territories where they live. She heard various reports about situations in which imminent contact could occur, with the concom itant risk to the survival of these groups, especially in the territory of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode. No government mechanisms or protocols have been devised to forestall these risks. 74. Given this state of affairs, State institutions must take steps to pr otect and ensure the survival of these groups and to respect their decision to remain in isolation. Particular attention should be devoted to the Guidelines for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact in the Amazon B asin, El Gran Chaco and the Eastern Region of Paraguay, which were issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in May 2012. __________________ 23 24 GE.15-13734 Declaration of the first national meeting of indigenous women in Paraguay, “Defensoras de la identidad y la vida” (Defenders of identity and way of life), Asunción, 30 July 2014 to 1 August 2014. “Kuña Guaraní Aty: Sistematización del Primer Encuentro”. Kuña Guaraní Aty Commission, National Anti-Poverty Directorate (DIPLANP), Asunción, 2013. “Kuña Guaraní Aty: Sistematización del Segundo Encuentro”, Ministry for Women’s Affairs. Coordinación Nacional de Pastoral Indígena (CONAPI), Asunción, 2015. 17/24