Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality

The commitments made over the last 45 years have led to the development of a robust Regional Gender Agenda in which women’s rights and gender equality are recognized as central and cross-cutting elements of all State action geared toward strengthening democracy and enabling a new style of sustainabl...

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spelling cepal-11362-48743 Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality Güezmes, Ana Vaeza, María-Noel NU. CEPAL UN WOMEN BIENESTAR SOCIAL POLITICA SOCIAL IGUALDAD DE GENERO DERECHOS HUMANOS CUIDADORES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIAL POLICY GENDER EQUALITY HUMAN RIGHTS CAREGIVERS LAWS AND REGULATIONS The commitments made over the last 45 years have led to the development of a robust Regional Gender Agenda in which women’s rights and gender equality are recognized as central and cross-cutting elements of all State action geared toward strengthening democracy and enabling a new style of sustainable development with equality. The right to care, understood as the right to receive care, to provide care and to exercise self-care, is part of the human rights already recognized in international covenants and treaties that benefit all people. The right to care also implies the recognition of the value of work, the guarantee of the rights of caregivers and the overcoming of stereotypes in which care is deemed to be the exclusive responsibility of women. Beyond the diversity of economic and cultural situations and institutional frameworks, all the countries of the region must design comprehensive care systems that aim for universal access to and quality of services, coordination and intersectoral policies, financial sustainability and social and gender co-responsibility. Introduction .-- I. The human right to care .-- II. Care in national regulatory frameworks .-- III. Challenges. 2023-03-10T14:42:00Z 2023-03-10T14:42:00Z 2023-03-10 Texto Documento Completo https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48743 LC/TS.2022/175/Rev.1 en Documentos de Proyectos .pdf application/pdf AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ECLAC UN WOMEN
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title Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
spellingShingle Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
BIENESTAR SOCIAL
POLITICA SOCIAL
IGUALDAD DE GENERO
DERECHOS HUMANOS
CUIDADORES
LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS
SOCIAL WELFARE
SOCIAL POLICY
GENDER EQUALITY
HUMAN RIGHTS
CAREGIVERS
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
title_short Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
title_full Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
title_fullStr Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
title_full_unstemmed Advances in care policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
title_sort advances in care policies in latin america and the caribbean: towards a care society with gender equality
topic BIENESTAR SOCIAL
POLITICA SOCIAL
IGUALDAD DE GENERO
DERECHOS HUMANOS
CUIDADORES
LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS
SOCIAL WELFARE
SOCIAL POLICY
GENDER EQUALITY
HUMAN RIGHTS
CAREGIVERS
LAWS AND REGULATIONS
description The commitments made over the last 45 years have led to the development of a robust Regional Gender Agenda in which women’s rights and gender equality are recognized as central and cross-cutting elements of all State action geared toward strengthening democracy and enabling a new style of sustainable development with equality. The right to care, understood as the right to receive care, to provide care and to exercise self-care, is part of the human rights already recognized in international covenants and treaties that benefit all people. The right to care also implies the recognition of the value of work, the guarantee of the rights of caregivers and the overcoming of stereotypes in which care is deemed to be the exclusive responsibility of women. Beyond the diversity of economic and cultural situations and institutional frameworks, all the countries of the region must design comprehensive care systems that aim for universal access to and quality of services, coordination and intersectoral policies, financial sustainability and social and gender co-responsibility.
publisher ECLAC
publishDate 2023
url https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48743
https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48743
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