On 28 October GI-ESCR’s Executive Director Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona participated in the webinar “The Social Organisation of Care: A Global Snapshot of Main and Potential Alternatives for a Feminist Trade Union Agenda”. This webinar was the official launch of a case study commissioned by Public Services International on the state of care arrangements in different countries around the world that will contribute to the discussion on how an agenda for transformation can be advanced.

Magdalena discussed unpaid care work as a human rights issue, building on the report she wrote in 2013 in her capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, in which she outlined how heavy and unequal care responsibilities are a major barrier to gender equality and to women’s equal enjoyment of human rights and argued that State policies should position care as a social and collective responsibility, in particular through improving women’s access to public services, care services and infrastructure.

This webinar was co-organised by ActionAid, The African Women’s Development and Communication Network, Center for Economic and Social Rights, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, Global Alliance for Tax Justice, GI-ESCR, Public Services International, and Womankind Worldwide.