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Zero Draft Research Paper

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Iveth Espinosa
Professor Balakrishnan
Feminist Advocacy Women’s Rights
March 6th, 2018
Zero Draft and Indigenous Women The Zero Draft is the result of the CSW62 Outcome Document, which establishes a legal framework towards achieving gender equality that member states agree to support at the conclusion of the CSW. Not to mention that varies entities use the Outcome Document as a tool to improve their national standard of policy-making. Despite constant efforts towards achieving gender equality, the Zero Draft is special since it focuses on rural women, who have been neglected for the longest time. The Zero Draft is still marginalizing certain groups of people such as indigenous women through its vague wording. Not to mention, that the draft …show more content…

For instance, rural women could be the wives or just independent women who work in the field of agriculture. It could also mean that rural women could only be considered to be indigenous women, or maybe they could be both indigenous women and wives of farmers. However, the Zero Draft specifically focuses on “the empowerment of rural women and girls” (pg 6), leaving out of the picture indigenous women. Thus the wording of the Zero Draft Document that states rural woman as the main target is vague since it does not define who is considered to be a rural woman not to mention the different cultural implications that have to be …show more content…

The draft is stressing the elimination “of all forms of violence and harmful practices against rural women and girls…” (pg. 3) In this section, the did not keep in mind that in order for women to overcome violent situations, they have to have psychological help in order to help them process and deal with traumatic events. Not to mention that women should have the access to these resources since it provides them with the psychological strength that is necessary to recognize that they are in an abusive environment and be able to leave that environment. It is very important to mention that rural women and indigenous women should have a mental awareness campaign since psychologists or psychiatrists are considered as something taboo, since they have the connotation that if you get help from one of them, then you must be crazy. Being able to have access to mental health specialists is also interconnected to education since it will educate them about the effects of birth such as postpartum depression. Many women are victims of postpartum depression, but many women go undiagnosed and untreated since they are not aware that they have it due to lack of knowledge about the

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