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Women’s determination to raise awareness on issues like the link
between human rights and development, natural resources and land
management, labor rights, rights to migration, political participation,
anticorruption, women rights and other dimensions of gender rights
of women human rights defenders, can made them unsafe and even
the target of direct attacks. This can also extend to their families who
might become the target of violence aiming to isolate and discourage
them from their work. Women human rights defenders are at higher
risk of violence, abuse, bias, exclusion and rejection than men human
rights defenders. These challenges need to be taken into account to
ensure more robust preventive mechanisms and responses to local
situations at the national and international levels.
Intimidation and Responses to the Works of Women Human
Rights Defenders
Based on data from Protection International, in the past, many
human rights defenders including women human rights defenders
have continuously been intimidated, harassed, murdered, involun-
tarily disappeared and sexually assaulted. Many of them were charged
with judicial cases by the government and the private sector. Women
human rights defenders are facing court cases due to their righteous
engagement in the promotion and protection of human rights. In
Thailand, since the beginning of the year, 8 out of 10 human rights
defenders charged with criminal cases were women. The government
has pursued national reforms by introducing laws related to natural
resources, land and energy management in the absence of democratic
processes and elected representatives. Rights to critique and disapprove
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