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GI-ESCR participated in the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68)

GI-ESCR participated in the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68)

CSW68 was held from 11 to 22 March 2024 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Governments, civil society organisations, experts and activists from across the world gathered to discuss and address emerging issues and new approaches to questions affecting the situation of women worldwide. The priority theme was focused on addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing. Additionally, there were also discussions on a review theme centred on social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure.

GI-ESCR with States’ delegations, civil society organisations, UN representatives, and other stakeholders contributed to the discussions on a gender-just transition, right-based tax policies and gender transformative public services.

New report: A Care-led Transition to a Sustainable Future

At CSW68, we released our briefing paper ‘A Care-led Transition to a Sustainable Future’. The paper evaluates the multiple dimensions of the relationship between care and climate change to advance the understanding of how care can be a key tool to shape a just and fair transition towards a sustainable future. The publication undertakes a comprehensive exploration of the connection between care and climate. Specifically, it analyses how the climate crisis implies heightening the current lack of access and growing imbalances with respect to support for care. At the same time, the brief highlights the importance of strong care policies as a tool to build up the resilience of communities against the effects of the climate emergency.

Alongside partners, GI-ESCR urged governments to explore the different aspects of this nexus as crucial for designing effective policies to tackle the climate crisis and push for an energy transition that leaves behind the injustices of the still predominant fossil-fuel based energy system.

GI-ESCR and Partners Hosted an Official Side-event on Gender and Care Responsive Climate Policies

Together with the governments of Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia and Finland, the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), GI-ESCR hosted the event, 'A Care-led Transition Towards a Sustainable Future: Pathways to Address Poverty and the Climate Crisis with a Gender Lens'. The event was moderated by GI-ESCR’s Programme Officer on Climate and Environmental Justice, Alejandra Lozano, and brought together experts from governments, intergovernmental organisations and civil society to share experiences and good practices.

The panel included Cindy Quesada Hernández, the Minister of the Status of Women from Costa Rica, Laura Rissanen, the State Secretary from the Ministry of Social Security of Finland, Lucía Scuro, Senior Social Affairs Officer at ECLAC’s Division for Gender Affairs, Ambassador Claudio Garrido, the Alternate Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Ambassador Arlene B. Tickner, the Alternate Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, Sarah Hendriks, the Director of the Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Support Division at UN Women, Chidi King, Chief of the Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch at ILO, Wedgan Hussein, PSI’s Africa and Arab countries WOC Vice-Chair of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Solidarity Staff Union.

The panellists discussed the impact of climate change on the care economy and care-centred policies that recognise, revalue and equitably redistribute care, thus, advancing gender equality and women’s rights.

Parallel-event on Care Policies as a Tool to Tackle Poverty

GI-ESCR joined partners from Public Services International (PSI), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), ActionAid, OXFAM, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJN), Tax Justice Network (TJN), Womankind, African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET), International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), and ESCR-Net at the parallel event ‘Rebuilding the Social Organisation of Care: a key to dismantling womxn's poverty’.

The event addressed the inequitable social structure of care in our societies that have been shaped by colonial power dynamics and the complex intersections of women's labour exploitation. Additionally, the event presented findings on the commodification, monetisation, financialisation and privatisation of care, along with the ramifications of the climate.

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