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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, involuntarily
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

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