The government should ensure corporations’ and business enterprises’ compliance in respecting rural women’s rights through advocacy, monitoring and imposition of strict sanctions and appropriate penalties to violators. 6. Ensure that corporations and businesses rehabilitate the environment that is damaged due to their operations. The women leader participants called for the mining corporations’ rehabilitation of the environment by removing mining tailings, tree-planting, and other activities. They said that community participation in tree-planting and other conservation activities can also be encouraged. 7. Conduct of CHR-led investigation and monitoring of rights violations. Some participants reported cases of sexual abuse of rural women, such as rape inside plantation and mining sites, prostitution, IP girl-child exploitation, and other abuses, in their areas. These incidents should be investigated by the Commission of Human Rights so that legal remedies and other appropriate interventions can be extended to the victims. Other examples of violations in relation to Business and Human Rights that were reported at the forum, and are strongly recommended for investigation, include: ● At least 20 anti-mining advocates killed since 2007 ● Cases of physical and legal harassments, threats and arbitrary arrests ● Land grabbing, physical displacement, demolitions and violent dispersal of barricades ● Disregard and blatant violation of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) for indigenous peoples (IPs) ● Militarization including using of Special Civilian Armed Auxiliary (SCAAs) vis-à-vis CAFGUs. 8. Strengthen rural women’s access to remedy. The workshops/forums organized by the Commission of Human Rights have helped build the women leaders’ knowledge on rural women’s rights, including UNGP on Business and Human Rights, which they will echo in their own communities. Letting them know about their right to access remedy is important so that victims of violations can take the necessary actions in seeking redress for their concerns. Aside from building their awareness on this right, access to remedy can be strengthened if an accessible system for reporting human rights violations can be developed. Such system should allow rural women in the remotest areas to be able to report human rights violations and to be able to seek help. Remedies such as legal assistance, proper compensation, social services and other appropriate interventions to human rights victims should be ensured. 14