Gender-Transformative Remedies for Women Human Rights Defenders

Aleydis Nissen

doi:10.1017/bhj.2023.41

Gender-Transformative Remedies for Women Human Rights Defenders

Aleydis Nissen

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Abstract

In its 2019 report to the Human Rights Council, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on business and human rights emphasized that ‘gender-transformative’ remedies can bring ‘change to patriarchal norms and unequal power relations that underpin discrimination, gender-based violence and gender stereotyping’. This article aims to deepen our knowledge of such remediation for women human rights defenders who fight against corporate human rights abuses. Human rights remediation is highly fragmented. This has the advantage that remedies at one level can offer sources of learning for remedies at other levels. This article uses relevant communications that the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders sent to states and corporations jointly with other Special Procedures (including the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences and the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls in law and practice) between 2011 and 2020 as a source of learning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	369 - 402
Number of pages	34
Journal	Business and Human Rights Journal
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2023.41
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 2023

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This article is part of the following research programmes: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) postdoc grant 12Z8921N, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) chargée de recherches grant FC38129 and the theme ‘Institutions for Conflict Resolution’ of the Dutch legal sector plan (Sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid) at Leiden Law School. The Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU) paid the Open Access charge.

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