Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

4How are mitigating measures on climatechange affecting indigenous women?• Denial of fundamental rights. For indigenous women, the denial of this fundamental right toownership, access to, use of and enjoyment of the benefits fromtheir traditional land,territories and resourcesfurther results to:• disenfranchisementfrom their productive andreproductive roles and fromtheir traditional spaces.• restriction to or lossof environmental servicesdue to incompatible climatechange mitigation measures.These include impacts onwater, fuelwood, alternative/additional food andmedicinal resources supply.Photo Credit: Montañosa Research Development Center Many indigenouswomen and their families are denied their rights over their lands andresources by multinational biofuel companies. Some women in Dayak communities whose lands were appropriatedfor large-scale mining or big-scale oil palm plantations have to workas prostitutes to secure theirlivelihood. 15• Human rights violations andarmed conflict. Violence,intimidation and murder areemployed by some biofuelcompanies to drive indigenouscommunities from their landsand resources. Conflicts betweencommunities who till the landfor food and corporations whowant the land for GE (geneticallyengineered) trees would worsen, 16putting indigenous women at risk.• Erosion of traditional values. InKalimantan, Indonesia, women“...In Colombia, oil palmcompanies employ armedguards and paramilitaries todrive people (Jiguamiando andCurvarado) off their land usingintimidation, violence andmurder. In Brazil, soya beanfarmers are hiring gunmen anderected barbed wire fences toexclude Afro-indigenous andAfro-descendant people fromthe areas where they havetraditionally collected nutsfrom the babacu tree.” 17114 <strong>Guide</strong> on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples