pdf Unheard and Unseen: Indigenous Women's Path to Empowerment and Sustainable Development Volume 1: South Asia (Bangladesh, India and Nepal) Popular

The three country studies in this volume reflect the disempowerment of indigenous women, resulting from intersecting factors over time and space in heterogenous societies in a part of South Asia. The complex barrier created by overlaying sheets of colonial oppression and discrimination, patriarchy and feudalism...has yet to be addressed substantially if we are to achieve the goals set in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the present Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).


CONTENTS

BANGLADESH: Transforming Realities: Political Participation of Rural Indigenous Women of Chittagong Hill Tracts 
by Women’s Resource Network, Bangladesh

NEPAL: Participation and Representation of Indigenous Women in Decision Making,
from Home to Policy
by the Center for Indigenous People’s Research and Development, National Indigenous Women’s Federation and National Indigenous Women Forum

INDIA: Many Faces of Indigenous Women in India (Narrative of Struggles and Victory)
Lead Researchers: Alma Grace Barla (Mainland India), Monjib Mochahari (Assam) and Dr. Khumtiya Debbarma (Tripura); Research Contributors: Khesheli Chishi (Manipur and Nagaland), Dr. Vasavi Kiro (Jharkhand), Mamta Kujur (Chhattisgarh)