This report analyses the gender-specific impacts of extractive and large-scale commercial agriculture corporations with a focus on the right to an adequate standard of living as guaranteed under international human rights standards...The report demonstrates the specific and unique impacts that extractive and large-scale commercial agriculture corporations’ operations have on women’s rights, including: displacement and loss of land; changes in the traditional roles of women within communities; increases in violence against women; environmental pollution and destruction; inability to access justice and compensation, among others.

This report highlights how states, the European Union and corporations operating in extractive industries and large-scale commercial agriculture sectors can incorporate gender-specific impacts on the right to an adequate standard of living into their gender-sensitive human rights due diligence processes and address these in their human rights due diligence frameworks, including the right to free, prior and informed consent...