Recently, the International Indigenous Women Forum (IIWF) or Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indigenas (FIMI), which is the global network of indigenous women’s organization around the world, came up with its report on the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of indigenous women. The report also shows the strategies of the indigenous women in dealing with the pandemic.
Limited access to health services, loss of spaces of spirituality, culture and intergenerational transmission of knowledge, and increased women’s workload due to family care and other tasks are among the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of indigenous women noted in the report.
The report also indicates the strategies indigenous women employ in response to the pandemic. Among these include application of regulations on responsible governance and ancestral community knowledge, awareness-raising, training, education and communication on COVID-19 in indigenous languages, and implementation of measures to deal with food insecurity and create conditions for sustainability in the midst of crisis.
You can read more of the report at https://www.indigenouspeoples-sdg.org/index.php/english/all-resources/resource-materials2/reports-and-publications
