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From rights to action

Indigenous Women at the center

GR39 and the Action Plan 2025–2030 are grounded in the priorities, struggles, and leadership of Indigenous Women.

Indigenous Women can use GR39 to:

Defend their individual and collective rights
Strengthen organizing and leadership
Engage authorities through an international human rights framework
Challenge structural and intersectional discrimination
Influence laws, policies, and decisions affecting their territories and lives

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Working together

From Territories to Decision-Making Spaces

The Action Plan promotes their active participation from community and organizational spaces to national advocacy and international human rights mechanisms, ensuring that Indigenous Women help shape, implement, and monitor actions related to GR39.

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Are you part of an Indigenous Women’s Organization and would like to share what you are doing to support the implementation of this General Recommendation?