A/75/185 women, children and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex groups. Nearly 90 indigenous families (almost 500 community members) were provided with food, first-aid kits, hand sanitizers, masks and sanitary pads for women. 79 60. In Canada, each First Nation reportedly has a unique plan for COVID and other pandemics, addressing the specific challenges faced by their community while respecting their cultural protocols and specific needs. A government health officer supports the coordination of their COVID-19 and pandemic planning processes and responds to First Nations needs at the regional level. 80 61. The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia is using its territorial monitoring system to issue periodic bulletins, including those containing data, analysis and recommendations. These contribute to timely and relevant decisions by traditional and government authorities acting for the protection of territories and communities and to efforts to ensure the survival and integrity of indigenous peoples and nations in the face of the pandemic. 81 Self-subsistence 62. Ensuring respect for indigenous rights to autonomy can accordingly also free up resources for non-indigenous communities. In the Philippines, it is reported that an indigenous community declined food packs offered by the Government’s social welfare agency on the grounds that there were families in greater need and that their community would be able to cope with the lockdown thanks to its self -subsistence. 82 In Chile, Mapuche artisanal fisherfolk have shared their catch with other non-indigenous communities struck by the economic consequences of the lockdown. 83 63. In India, an indigenous organization raised international funding to remunerate local women for producing masks, purchase and distribute sanitation supplies in their communities, produce preventive public health programming for radio in local indigenous languages and promote traditional medicine. 84 E. Disproportionate impact of State response on indigenous peoples 64. State-imposed lockdown, confinement and other restrictions on freedom of movement, even when nominally applied in an equal manner to all segments of populations, have disproportionately had an impact on indigenous peoples, in particular those living in urban areas and those indigenous communities which are not self-subsistent. Women and girls 65. Reports from the Americas, 85 Asia86 and Africa 87 indicate a correlation between confinement and a rise in domestic and other violence against indigenous women and __________________ 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 20-09737 Joint submission by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and partners. Submissions by Chiefs of Ontario and the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. See, for example, https://www.onic.org.co/noticias/70-desta-cadas/3784-boletin-013-sistema-demonitoreo-territorial-smt-onic-informacion-para-prote-ger-la-vida-y-los-territorios. Submission by the Tebtebba Foundation. See https://observatorio.cl/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/filac_fiay_primer-informepi_covid19.pdf, p. 34. See https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/indigenous-peoples-finding-solutions-owncommunities-response-covid-19. Submission by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Submissions by Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact and Nepalese indigenous women’s organizations. Joint submissions by Moroccan Amazigh organizations; and submission by Minority Rights Group International and partners. 17/27