...[I]n partnership with the Women Peacemakers Program, ISHR took the opportunity this week to underline how women defenders can be impacted by business operations – especially those with security sector implications – and what businesses can do to make sure their perspectives are taken into account...‘We can clearly see from the most recent report of the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders that defenders working to promote corporate accountability – whistleblowers, land and environmental activists, trade unionists – are particularly vulnerable,’ says author Sarah M. Brooks, ISHR advocate and focal point on women defenders. ‘When we view this through a gender lens, we see that women are more dependent on access to land; more exposed to certain kinds of corporate abuse, especially when the security sector is involved; and more constrained in their ability to seek remedy. This makes the work of women defenders in the corporate accountability space even more critical, and yet even more challenging.’...