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15 Jun 2017

Submission to the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises on Access to Remedy [short version]

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International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights and others welcome the opportunity to contribute to the upcoming report on Access to Remedy by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights…Corporate human rights abuses are not gender neutral and due to patriarchal structural barriers and entrenched discriminatory laws and practices they exacerbate gender inequalities…Remedies need to take into account the unequal power relations that govern the context of corporate abuses, particularly as women often face stigma, reprisals and job insecurity for reporting business-related abuses. The compounded discrimination that women from marginalized groups face should be taken into account. Structural impediments i.e. legal, economic, social and cultural barriers to women’s rights to remedies must therefore be addressed in all dimensions…