This was brought to my attention by Nellie Bowles, whose Friday weekly summaries on Bari Weiss’s Substack site are both informative and snarky. Lately they’ve added a new one as a euphemism for “biological women + transmen who can have children”. Yet the activists haven’t seemed to settle on one word that fits all. So far these words have included “people who menstruate”, “chestfeeder”, “womxn” and others I can’t recall. If you say, “trans women are women”, then you are forced to make up new words to refer to biological women who are physiologically and reproductively different from tranwomen.
Governments need to pay special attention to indigenous peoples residing in cross-border areas, in accordance with article 36 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to ascertain the human rights situation in the those areas.As you know, we have a spate of new words for “woman” or “women”, all devised to either efface the distinction between biological women and transwomen, or to include transmen (many of whom still have male genitals, have periods and can bear children) together in a group with biological women. The lack of recognition of the collective rights of these peoples has created fertile ground for their loss of territories and resources and the emergence of complex forms of conflict, including violent extremism. There is growing concern of the situation of indigenous peoples of the Sahel and other parts of Africa, where a number of factors, including climate change, are having a devastating impact on economic development and human security. There is a need for governments to establish mechanisms and processes for comprehensive dialogue and consultations with indigenous peoples to obtain their free, prior and informed consent in relation to any project that will have an impact on their territories and resources therefore respecting the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples and ensuring they are able to exercise their rights in accordance with international human rights standards. Thus, it is necessary that relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council collaborate with each other and with other human rights bodies to address the situation through monitoring, mediation, analysis and the provision of concrete recommendations for the effective protection of indigenous human rights defenders. This alarming trend is seen all around the world. Indigenous human rights defenders are increasingly targeted as terrorists for promoting and protecting decades-old guaranteed rights.
Another word for unnecessary aggression full#
Despite efforts over the last 40 years to improve conditions and to increase recognition of indigenous rights through law and policy, litigation, national dialogue and enhanced leadership opportunities, full accommodation of indigenous rights remains elusive. One of the most serious shortcomings in human rights protection in recent years is the trend towards the use of legislation and the justice system to penalize and criminalize social protest activities and legitimate demands made by indigenous organizations and movements in defence of their rights.ĭespite some progress, little change. Indigenous peoples have frequently faced detention due to the criminalization of social protest activities. These forms of discrimination are often either difficult to quantify and verify or are simply not documented by the authorities, or not disaggregated based on ethnicity.Ĭriminalization of protest. At their most extreme, these forms of discrimination lead to gross violations of human rights, such as murder, rape and other forms of violence or intimidation. This discrimination manifests itself in a number of ways such as frequent and unnecessary questioning by the police, condescending attitudes of teachers to students or rudeness from a receptionist in a government office.
Indigenous peoples frequently raise concerns about systemic discrimination and outright racism from the State and its authorities. An indigenous woman is more likely to be raped, with some estimates showing that more than one in three indigenous women are raped during their lifetime
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