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On International Women’s Day 2020, from the Philippines, India, Fiji, Nepal, United Kingdom, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador to Paraguay, over one million women in all their diversities, from 60 countries went on a Women’s Global Strike(link is external) to highlight the injustices women continue to face and demand structural change to advance women’s human rights. Today, as the world prepares for and responds to COVID-19 pandemic, the political demands(link is external) articulated collectively by the Women’s Global Strike for a systemic change matter more than ever: COVID-19 is not gender neutral, and the pandemic is hitting disproportionally women around the world, especially those from poor and marginalized communities that experience intersectional discrimination.

One of the aims of the Monitoring Working Group is to support community-led monitoring and documentation across the Network. To this end, we participated to the Grassroots Women’s Leaders Exchange on the struggles for land and natural resources, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 29th July to 2nd August 2019.

The world was watching as the International Labour Organization (ILO), on its 100^th anniversary, responded to the voices of millions of women around the world by adopting the first legally binding treaty to address gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work.