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8 March 2023 - Reaffirming the urgency of placing care on the political agendas

We marked International Women´s Day and Women´s History Month with a global call for an all-agreed fair Social Pact on Care. We started advocating for this 3 years ago when Covid-19 exacerbated the global care crisis. Since then our members have continued to multiply our actions to highlight the need to put care at the center of the political agendas globally.

8 مارس/آذار 2023 – إعادة التأكيد على أهمية وضع "الرعاية" على الأجندات السياسية

Feminist Forum advances proposals to place care at the center of Latin American and Caribbean societies and economies

A space for collective learning, participation and diverse and regional organization: this was the Feminist Forum of the XV Regional Conference on Women held at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (Ex ESMA) on November 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Building sustainable peace. Transforming conflict-affected situations for women

Over the past two years, dozens of ESCR-Net members engaged in cross-network discussions to develop the analytical report “Building sustainable peace. Transforming conflict-affected situations for women.” The report argues that in dealing with conflict-affected situations, it is vital to adopt an intersectional feminist approach via a human rights framework, and provides seven lessons and principles to guide the work in the field.

Networkwide Exchange on Securing Land Rights for People and the Planet

On 27 April 2021, ESCR-Net co-hosted an online discussion on land rights. Over 50 members from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America, convened virtually to learn from each other’s experiences and strengthen shared analysis and...

ESCR-Net members calls on the IMF to stop promoting austerity measures during the recovery process

ESCR-Net members, including Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Global Initiative for Economic, Social and...

Altavoz: a practical guide for using parallel reporting to advance women’s rights

ESCR-Net has launched Altavoz, a guide that provides practical information and tools for using parallel reporting to advance women’s economic social and cultural rights and raise international attention on issues of...

Call for a Women’s Global Strike on 8 March 2020

The Women’s Global Strike, a global campaign currently endorsed by over 90 organizations and movements worldwide, is a response to the unkept promises made 25 years ago in the Beijing Declaration by our governments to advance equality, development...

Women articulating shared positions and advancing collective action on land and natural resources

In recent years, coordinated by the Working Group on Women and ESCR, grassroots women leaders have been articulating shared positions and advancing collective action on land and natural resources; most recently, via a second exchange and a series of contributions to the UN Committee on Economic...

Ecuador fails to address the impact of unpaid care work on women’s social security access

Last October, members from the Strategic Litigation Working Group and Women and ESCR Working Group submitted a collective third party intervention...

Tunisia: Women working in agriculture lack secure transportation to work

Women working in agriculture in Tunisia continue to face serious risks as a result of unsafe transportation to their places of work, sometimes leading to deadly accidents. On Monday, 36 women working in the agricultural sector were injured in an accident during travel to their...