ARE GOVERNMENTS INVESTING IN CARING AND JUST ECONOMIES? - Key takeaways from a gender and human rights

3 Progressively achieving the Recommendations for States full realization of economic • States must prioritize the collection of disaggregated individual data to address and social rights discrimination and entrenched inequalities At the time of the assessment, most of the nine countries had signed, if during the pandemic a. [...] Note: ICERD stands for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ICESCR for the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, CEDAW for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CRC for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ICRMW for the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights. [...] Even though the impacts of administrative procedures must be designed to the crisis continued to be felt by millions of informal economy workers and incorporate the needs and constraints of workers their families throughout 2021, however, most schemes were implemented in the informal economy and expired in 2020. [...] term.5 Prioritizing and valuing paid care sectors in the • States should recognize all prevalent forms of violence informal economy would better protect women workers strictly and explicitly as criminal acts, irrespective of the and eventually help to change gender stereotypes and relationships between survivors and perpetrators and the redistribute unpaid care work within homes and the wider circ. [...] Governance should deliver public goods to all, including paradigms that underpin universal social protection, health coverage, education and skills, decent work and housing, and access to the Internet.6 global policy and economic discourses, and move towards sustainability and social justice.