Violences and indigenous women

communitary justice, effectiveness of laws and female agency

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present some reflections on the violation of indigenous women rights in the Brazilian context. By doing this, it introduces an approach to violence against women in the different native villages, and to the female agency that develops strategies for dealing with such conflicts and violations. These issues are presented in the debate on the indigenous communities’ rights and the human rights of women in general, showing that the problems experienced by indigenous women do not come from the general problems of their people, even if they can involve specific understandings on the violence against women in the intersection with ethnicity.