Management System Consultancy

Purpose: For College, University Gender Audit for NAAC assessment submission purpose and Industry ESG reporting. All people are born equal and free, as guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and all people, regardless of gender, are endowed by virtue of their humanity with human rights and human dignity. However, climate change, biodiversity and habitat loss, and pollution threaten to destroy lives, economies, and entire cultures and societies. These devastating and interlocking environmental emergencies harm human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water and sanitation, culture, self-determination, and many others, with differential effects on the basis of gender. Entrenched and systemic gender-based discrimination and violence against women, stereotypes, resource limitations, differing nutritional needs over the life course, especially during, infancy, childhood, pregnancy, and childbirth, and differing levels of exposure to pollution and hazardous substances, among other factors, can intensify the negative human rights impacts of environmental degradation including climate change. However, even while experiencing differential and disproportionate impacts of environmental harms, many women1 are leaders in environmental action – as managers of resources and advocates of sustainable lifestyles – and staunch defenders of land, water, nature, and communities. States, businesses, international organizations, and other actors have (procedural and substantive) obligations and responsibilities under both international human rights law and international environmental law, as well as international policy commitments, to address environmental crises. In addressing these crises, they must also prevent their negative, gendered impacts on enjoyment of human rights, and ensure that actions to address environmental degradation are gender-responsive, equitable, non-retrogressive, non-discriminatory, and sustainable. This document highlights the key human rights obligations and responsibilities of States and/or other actors with respect to gender and the environment.