Quand le sexe devient politique… Enjeux et périls du contre-rapport des femmes autochtones de Colombie aux Nations unies

• Main Author: Anna Schmit
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Institut Français d'Études Andines 2018-08-01
• Series: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
• Subjects: sexuality; Indigenous women; Multicuturalism; Colombia; United Nations
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/bifea/9609

In 1991, Colombia adopted a new Constitution, which enshrined the multicultural character of the nation and the equality of women and men. This has tended to produce a boundary between social categories that has disadvantages for Indigenous females citizens trying to exercise their rights. To remedy this legislative gap, in 2012, a local association of indigenous women’s human rights proposed to strengthen the alliance between the indigenous women of the country in order to formulate a preliminary “shadow report” to present to the United Nations Comittee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CoEDAW). During this collective action, indigenous women tried to raise their sexual and reproductive rights to the level of matters of common interest, the respect for which requires governmental intervention. This article seeks to study the construction of this political position, which affirms the indivisibility of the peoples’s free determination and women’s liberty to have control over their bodies.