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2021年11月29日

作者:
European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre & 59 others

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day: Over 60 NGOs urge EU to ensure gender-responsive due diligence law

"EU corporate due diligence law must be gender-responsive", 29 Nov 2021

Women who defend human rights and the environment across the world are at the forefront of the fight against all forms of discrimination and inequality. Yet they constantly face harassment, imprisonment, stigmatisation, criminalisation and violence for protecting environmental, land and indigenous peoples’ rights.

In 2020, 13 % of the 331 human rights defenders killed worldwide were women. Most of these killings occurred in the context of business activities, with Latin America being the most affected region.

Gender-specific impacts happen in all sectors, from extractives, manufacturing and agriculture to food services industry and the garment sector where women make up 80% of the workforce. Furthermore, 71% of people living in modern slavery are women.

The European Union has the opportunity to help protect the rights of the nearly 190 million women working in global supply chains through the upcoming Sustainable Corporate Governance directive.

The open letter sets out recommendations for a gender-responsive directive:

  1. Include a reference to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women  and the ILO conventions on migrant workers and violence at work.
  2. Create a robust liability regime enabling victims to access justice and obtain an effective remedy by reducing gender inequality, vulnerabilities and marginalisation.
  3. Cover entire value chains, including semi-formal and informal working schemes, unofficial subcontracting and home-based work at the lowest tiers of value chains.
  4. Apply to companies of all sizes as sectors where women are hit hardest include many small and medium-sized enterprises.
  5. Identify gender-based violence and sexual harassment as severe risks of human rights violations to be prevented, redressed and remedied.
  6. Ensure gender-sensitive human rights and environmental impact assessments.
  7. Provide gender-responsive stakeholder engagement and alert mechanisms, without any risk of retaliation and with safe and equal participation of women in decision-making processes.
  8. Include purchasing practices of companies in the framework of human rights and environmental due diligence processes.

The letter emphasizes that a gender-responsive approach to corporate regulation is instrumental in advancing women’s and girls’ rights, under international commitments like the Sustainable Development Goals and the Beijing Declaration.

We urge the EU Commission to seize this unique opportunity to fight gender inequality and discrimination in global value chains.

属于以下案件的一部分

2021 International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day

Towards an EU mandatory due diligence & corporate accountability law

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