COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples: Vulnerabilities, Impacts and Responses

COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples: Vulnerabilities, Impacts and Responses

Globally, Indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable to both the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the measures being implemented to curb it. The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Elatia (Indigenous Peoples’ Global Partnership on Climate Change, Forests and Sustainable Development) and UPAKAT (a national network of indigenous political structures and indigenous peoples organization for the promotion of traditional knowledge and wisdom in the Philippines) partners of Tebtebba point out many factors that make indigenous peoples among the most vulnerable in the pandemic and what responses indigenous peoples are doing.

 

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