The right to live without violence: The indigenous women right's protection and challenges in the Inter-american System of Human Rights

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the protection and legal challenges of the Indigenous Women Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System. This original theme explores a normative void, gives visibility to ignored faces, and is treated mainly from an intersectional look, in the pretense of revealing a double and simultaneous discrimination suffered by them, intersecting sex and ethnicity, in a way that makes them susceptible to the most diverse forms of violence. To do this analysis, the study used a qualitative and deductive approach. The type of research is documentary and bibliographic. As the main source, the research focused on the report on the human rights of indigenous women, published in 2017, by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The present paper follows the vulnerability of the indigenous women, within their communities and outside them, showing them, however, as genuine propellers in the equal rights struggle. We conclude that, in America, there is a long way to go until, with some security, they reach its legitimate right to live without violence. For this, it is necessary that specific measures are taken, facing mainly the main focuses of manifestation of the violence committed against them: Armed conflicts; development, investment and extraction projects; the militarization of indigenous lands; the home environment of communities; the lack of economic, social and cultural rights; indigenous leaders and defenders; the urban environment and migration processes.