Realizing indigenous women's rights : a handbook on the CEDAW / [editor/writers, Helen Tugendhat & Eleanor Dictaan-Bang-oa]

Includes bibliographical references.

to take United Nations declaration on the right of indigenous peoples and use it to inform and educate governments, treaty bodies and other standard setting bodies.

Milestones have been achieved in the development of human rights instruments and standards, including a particular treaty instrument for women. But these have yet to be translated and made real in the lived experiences of indigenous peoples on the ground- to take the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)and to test it in the context of indigenous women