Gender Justice

Gender justice is embedded in all the work we do to support indigenous and forest peoples in their efforts to secure inclusive and collective land tenure and realise their right to self-determination. We recognise the diverse and dynamic cultural norms of the peoples we support, while upholding indigenous women’s activism and knowledge as crucial to collective land rights movements and access to justice for all. Recognising the forms of intersectional discrimination faced by indigenous women in particular, we seek to uphold their collective and individual rights and guarantee non-discrimination on the basis of their identities as indigenous and women, as well as on factors such as status, class, disability and age.

As a human rights organisation, our commitment to gender justice and non-discriminatory practices is informed by international human rights law and standards, in particular Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and UNDRIP, and guided by statements made by indigenous women’s groups. Our approach is further detailed in FPP’s ‘Gender Framework and Policy’. Our work on gender is also inextricably linked to our commitment to safeguarding, as we recognise the specific vulnerabilities that women and other more marginalised sub-sections of communities’ face in any relationship where differences of power and resources exist.