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The Routes to Remedy Toolkit
In 2022, Global Rights Compliance, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), developed a digital platform – the Routes2Remedy Toolkit – to strengthen Human Rights Defenders’ access to remedy for violations of their human rights due to their work in business and human rights.
The Routes2Remedy Toolkit aims to provide human rights defenders with information and knowledge on available remedy routes where they have suffered harm as a result of their work on business-related human rights abuses. This Toolkit was developed in response to the finding that lack of knowledge and access to relevant information forms a significant barrier for human rights defenders seeking remediation for violations by business and state actors.
In the Routes2Remedy Toolkit, human rights defenders will be able to find information on available domestic remedies in seven Asian countries: Bangladesh, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam.
Our Services and Activities
- To ensure that the content of the Toolkit adequately responds to their needs and reflects their views and perspectives, GRC carried out a number of consultations with local human rights defenders and civil society organisations.
- This included a Safe Space Dialogue, hosted in collaboration with UNDP and the UNWG on Business and Human Rights, where human rights defenders and civil society organisations in the Asia Pacific region had the opportunity to share their first-hand knowledge and understanding about the risks they face and the barriers they have encountered when engaging with remedy avenues.
- In August 2022, Global Rights Compliance successfully carried out a Routes2Remedy Toolkit Training with human rights defenders and civil society organisations in Thailand and Bangladesh. The soft-launch activities included a practical demonstration of the Toolkit; presentations on the available remedies in Thailand and Bangladesh; and training on the essential investigative rules human rights defenders should follow when documenting and gathering evidence on human rights violations.
Deliverables
Routes to Remedy: Toolkit For Defenders Facing Business-Related Human Rights Impacts in Asia
In a dropdown “menu”, human rights defenders have the option to choose the country, the perpetrator - whether State, business or unknown person - and the human rights violation they have suffered from in order to search for the resources they need. The Toolkit focuses on ten human rights violations which have been identified as the most common and recurring violations for human rights defenders: Intimidation; Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs); Illegal Arrest and Detention; Stopped from Protesting; Stopped from Forming Groups or Trade Unions; Wrongful Accusation and Prosecution; Surveillance; Killing; Torture & Violence; Sedition.
The Routes to Remedy (R2R) Toolkit has been developed by the Business and Human Rights team at the United Nations Development Programme with support from the Government of Sweden. Global Rights Compliance provided technical support to develop the R2R Toolkit.
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