Women Rights
- Women’s work is often overlooked, unpaid and undervalued. They work in unsafe conditions and have precarious jobs. Greater corporate accountability for upholding human rights is needed.Across the world, women and girls are at risk of violence. We challenge the social and cultural norms that lead to women’s vulnerability.There are structural causes of violence against women: beliefs, access to resources, and economics. Governments must do more to serve the needs of poor and excluded women, and to protect and advance their rights.
- We are committed to ending sexual and gender based violence.
- Break the silence on sexual and Gender based violence.
- For a society free of sexual violence.
Work is critical to everyone’s human rights, but women’s labor has always been considered second-class.
Much of women’s domestic labor, while crucial to society, is not considered work and not paid, and also affects the time they have available for paid work. Those women who do work outside the home are more likely to be confined to underpaid and insecure jobs. A number of factors affect this situation, including economic and labor policies, global corporate practices, availability of infrastructure, family dynamics and even climate change.
What we do
We focus on economic justice for women by addressing amplifying the voices of women and addressing the structural barriers that lead to exploitation: these include unjust economic policies, such as the privatization of the public services on which women depend, and patriarchal social norms. Specifically, we:
- Push for the recognition, reduction and redistribution of women’s unpaid work, by lobbying for investment in gender-responsive public services, and strengthening women’s awareness of their rights as unpaid caregivers
- Work with feminist organisations, trade unions and informal labor organisations to respond to women’s demands for decent work
- Engage in policy and advocacy from local to global levels, addressing norms and practices that affect particularly marginalized and excluded women