Building a Feminist Future: Towards a Feminist and Human-Rights-Based Global Social Pact on Care

Building a Feminist Future: Towards a Feminist and Human-Rights-Based Global Social Pact on Care

December 2020

• Theme: Care Economy, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Global South Women's Forum, Macroeconomics.
• Type: Video.
• Region/Country: Global.
• Language: English.

This session, held by ESCR-Net at Global South Women’s Forum 2020, addresses the uneven social organisation of care work and presents a framework to reframe the economic system as a caring economy and challenge the current neoliberal model based on economic growth. Related topics on the commodification of common goods, financialisation and labour flexibilisation are also covered.

Speakers:
Claudia Lazzaro, Union of the Leather Industry of Argentina (Sindicato de Curtidores de Cuero de la República Argentina, SOCRA)
EiEi Min, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
Charlene May, Women´s Legal Centre Organisation (South Africa)
Carine Metz Abu Hmeid, Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center (Palestine)

Moderators:
Viviana Osorio, ESCR-Net Organisation, Advisor on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Valentine Sébile, ESCR-Net Organisation, Working Group Coordinator on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Duration: 1:40:55
Subtitles: None