The Special Rapporteur has talked to numerous indigenous women's organizations, which complained of discriminatory practices against women within their own communities, such as forced marriages, the practice of giving children away to other families, frequent domestic violence, child rape, dispossession of property, limited access to land ownership and other forms of male patriarchal domination.
Les femmes autochtones dénonçaient notamment les mariages forcés, la coutume consistant à donner des fillettes à d'autres familles, la violence familiale fréquente, le viol des fillettes, l'appropriation de leurs biens par les hommes, leur accès limité à la propriété des terres et d'autres manifestations de suprématie masculine et de patriarcat.