Well-funded public services are crucial to realize women’s rights, says GI-ESCR at International Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

On 29 October 2020, GI-ESCR participated in the International Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development organized by the Mexican National Commission of Human Rights. Experts and participants from all over Latin America participated in this 3-day event focused on exploring the challenges and opportunities that Mexico and the region are facing to realize ESCR and advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Alejandra Lozano, GI-ESCR’s Programme Officer on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, participated in the first panel on “Gender equality: a path towards the eradication of poverty” where she highlighted how we could harness the legal and institutional framework developed under the international human rights normative framework to unpack the full transformative potential of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

“one of the few positive consequences of the pandemic is the momentum is has generated in support of the public provision of public services that are essential for the realization of the rights to health, education, housing, water, among others. Well- funded public services are of crucial importance for the State to realize women’s rights and to transform the unequal power relations between men and women which underpin gender inequality”, Alejandra underlined.

Mtra. Gabriela Delgado Ballesteros from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Rogelio Gómez Hermosillo Marín from Acción Ciudadana Frente a la Pobreza alsoparticipated in the panel.

See the full programme here below:

EventGI-ESCR29 October 2020Strengthening human rights frameworks, Women's ESC rights