Women

HRC58 Side Event, 13 March 2025

The Role of Peasant Women

The Function of the UNDROP in the Realization of the Right to Food

Side-Event to the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council

Co-organized by the South Centre

Date & Time: 13 March, 13-14h

Venue: Room XXII, Palais des Nations/United Nations Office in Geneva

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SouthViews No. 250, 10 August 2023

COVID-19, Future Pandemics and the Africa Care Economy Index

By Salimah Valiani

In Africa, the care economy has long been unrecognised. At least since the last major pandemic in Africa, HIV-AIDS, caring work has been severely undervalued in the continent, and the redistribution of caring work, from females in the home and communities, is next to nonexistent. Undoing this structural inequality is crucial to improve health and wellbeing of girls and women in Africa, to be prepared for future pandemics, and to realise Africa’s demographic dividend for the benefit of the majority. To achieve this, the Africa Care Economy Index is offered as a policy, advocacy, and accountability tool.

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