On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, GI-ESCR and over 200 organisations have endorsed ESCR-Net’s statement to call for alternative development models that ensure the creation of gender-equal societies. As part of ESCR-Net, we advocate for a just and sustainable future where women and girls in all their diversity can live in dignity and thrive.

Thousands of women across the world are participating in demonstrations on the occasion of the International Women’s Day this 08 March to call on States to develop comprehensive polices to ensure women’s full and effective participation and the enjoyment of the full range of civil, political, as well as economic, social and cultural rights.

Women’s rights activists and feminist are convinced that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken its greatest toll on women, must be harnessed as an opportunity to ensure the transformation of our social and political systems into ones that fully promote gender equality, socially reorganise care systems, and inspire economic alternatives that places people and the environment at its core.

See the full political statement here!

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ESCR-Net is a network of over 280 NGOs, social movements and advocates across 75 countries. Through ESCR-Net, groups and individuals can exchange information, develop a collective voice, amplify their actions, develop new tools and strategies. By facilitating joint actions, enhancing communications and building solidarity across regions, the network seeks to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.    

GI-ESCR actively participates in this network in several of its working groups developing collective transnational advocacy strategies to strengthen the ESCR framework and address the underlying factors of social, economic and environmental injustice.

Photo: ESCR-Net (https://www.escr-net.org/).