Echoing the call of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development for his 2025 report on the nexus between gender equality and the right to development, this April we prepared a collective submission, along with Public Services International (PSI) and Corporación Humanas (Chile). 

The document sought to make visible the shortcomings of the current state of care work worldwide, where the overrepresentation of women and girls reinforces gender inequalities, exacerbates multidimensional poverty and forces them further away from development. 

Overcoming these barriers to development requires rebuilding the social organisation of care towards a care society: one that assumes interdependency and eco-dependency as constituent dimensions of life, and positions care as an activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our world. Through this approach, we are pushing for the resourcing of care as a public good and a collective social responsibility, and the enshrinement of care and support as a human right within international, regional, domestic and sub-national legislations.

This input follows a series of activities we have organised to foster a care society as a critical step for the advancement of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights. Read all our latest endeavours during the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, in our latest newsletter.