A/HRC/38/49 Principles into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, 13 and a joint statement by a group of civil society organizations along the same lines. 14 76. Case studies presented to demonstrate the relationship included: • Efforts by Nestlé, in collaboration with the non-governmental organization Verité, to address forced labour and human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain, showing also the direct contribution to Sustainable Development Goal targets (for example, targets 8.7 and 8.8) • The multi-stakeholder initiative “Malawi Tea 2020” to ensure a living wage for farm workers, involving companies in the Ethical Tea Partnership, Oxfam and Malawian unions and civil society organizations • Efforts by Chile to integrate human rights requirements in public procurement processes and the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals in the national action plan on business and human rights 77. The overall takeaways from the discussions included: • Company-non-governmental organization partnerships to support the Sustainable Development Goals should be founded on transparency and a corporate commitment to respect human rights • Corporate reporting on contributions made to the Sustainable Development Goals should include information on how risks to persons are addressed • The Sustainable Development Goals provided a framework for longer-term and more holistic perspective for investors, even though it should also integrate human rights risks and impacts (that is, the “people part”) E. Gender lens 78. Participants in Forum sessions highlighted the fact that women faced unique business-related human rights abuses and subsequent barriers to remedy. The sessions focusing on gender also provided important input to the Working Group and its efforts to develop guidance for integrating a gender lens into the implementation of the Guiding Principles. 15 That women not be considered a homogeneous group was continuously stressed, given that remedies and issues should be addressed taking into account their own specific context. The Working Group and stakeholders called for proactive measures to be taken by both Governments and businesses in order to avoid gender-blind practices, at the risk of reinforcing patriarchal and discriminatory structures if they failed to do so. 79. One issue discussed concerned land-intensive investments and their impact on women, such as: • The exclusion of women from negotiations and ownership of land • Unpaid care and domestic work, compounded by displacement and environmental damage • Changing gender relations in communities owing to the influx of migrant workers or increasing domestic violence 80. Key solutions included the need for companies to involve affected women in the design and evaluation of mitigation and remediation processes, to address the barriers that 13 14 15 OHCHR, “The business and human rights dimension of sustainable development: Embedding ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ in SDGs implementation”, information note, 30 June 2017 (available at www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Business/Session18/InfoNoteWGBHR_ SDGRecommendations.pdf). See https://business-humanrights.org/sites/default/files/documents/SDGs-businesshumanrightsopenletterSept2017.pdf. See OHCHR, “Gender lens to the UNGPs” (available at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Business/Pages/GenderLens.aspx). 19