65th Commission on the Status of Women

Tuesday 16 March: 6:30AM–8:00AM EDT
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South Asia’s Garment Supply Chains: Good Practices by Women’s Collectives

A panel discussion organized by HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) in partnership with IDRC.

Panelists included academics, trade unionists, and founders/CEOs of social enterprises, who shed light on how organizations of South Asian women home-based workers have developed good practices to tackle the precarity of work in global garment supply chains.

During this session, HNSA launched the research report on “Promoting Decent Work for Women Home-Based Workers in Value Chains: Cases from India and Nepal”.

Speakers

• Marty Chen, International Coordinator Emeritus and Senior Advisor, WIEGO
• Lin Lin, Board Member, WIEGO
• Sanchita Mitra, National Coordinator, SEWA Bharat
• Arjan De Haan, Senior Programme Specialist, IDRC
• Ratna Sudarshan, Lead Researcher, HNSA Study
• Robin Amatya, CEO, SABAH Nepal
• Sumita Ghose, Managing Director, Rangsutra
• Smriti Kedia, CEO, Sadhna

Interpretation will be available in Bangla, Nepali, Hindi and Urdu.

Tuesday 16 March: 8:00AM – 10:00AM EDT

The Missing Rights of Women Workers in the Informal Economy

Organised by the Global 16 Days Campaign [coordinated by the Center of Women Global Leadership (CWGL)], the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), HomeNet International (HNI) and WIEGO.

Speakers

• Carmen Britez, Vice President, IDWF
• Srishti Joshi Malla, HNSA Advisory Board and Chairperson of SABAH Nepal
• Rosheda Muller, Leader, South African Informal Traders Alliance (SAITA), SNI Affiliate
• Sonia George, General Secretary, SEWA-Kerala and the National Council Member
• Ana Carolina Ogando, Research Associate, WIEGO
• Roshana Pradhan, Program Coordinator, FWLD, Nepal

Interpretation will be available in Spanish.

Wednesday, 17 March: 8:00 am – 10:00 am EDT

IMF and World Bank Austerity Measures are Impediments to the Realization of BPfA 

Organized by Action Aid International, Public Service International (PSI), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era DAWN, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), and WIEGO.

Speakers

• Rachel Moussié, Deputy Director, Social Protection Programme, WIEGO
• Andi Cipta Asmawaty, Labour Program Officer, APWLD
• Misun Woo, Regional Coordinator, APWLD
• Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, University of Esysex,
• Rosa Pavenelli, General Secretar, PSI
• Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, Executive Committee Member, DAWN
• Neelanjana Mukhia, ActionAid International
• Fatimah Kelleher, ActionAid International
• Jarujit Prajit, Vice President, Nurses Union of Thailand
• Memory Kachambwa, FEMNET

Friday, 19 March: 9:00 am –10:30 am EDT

Photo Credit: Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images Reportage 

#InvestInCare: A driver of gender equality

Organized by the Global Union Federations about the Global Day of Action on Care.

Moderator

• Rachel Moussié, Deputy Director of Social Protection, WIEGO

Speakers​​​​​​

• Grace Papa, CSC A&S Belgium, Member of the Executive Committee, IDWF
• Adriana Paz, Regional Coordinator for Latin America, IDWF
• Marieke Koning, International Trade Union Organization (ITUC)
• Chidi King, Director, Equality Department, ITUC
• Maria Tsirantonaki, Project Cooordinator, ITUC 
• Carmen Smenjaud, ITUC Assistant 
• Michel Core, Public Services International
• Hazel Ripoll, Public Services International
• Kate Lappin, Public Services International
• Veronica Montufar, Public Services International
• Rebeca Sevilla, Coordinator, Education International 
• Yamile Socolovsky, Secretary for Training Research, Projects and StatisticsCTA-T Argentina,
• Bilan Arte, National Representative for Women and Human Rights, Canadian Labour Congress
• Diane Elson, Chair, Women’s Budget Group

Friday, 19 March: 9:00AM–11:00AM EDT

10 Years since C189: Domestic Workers’ Need for Social Protection

Organized by the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF).

Moderator

• Elizabeth Tang, General Secretary, IDWF

Speakers

• Claire Hobden, International Labour Organization
• Ida Le Blanc, National Union of Domestic Employees (NUDE), Trinidad and Tobago
• Lita Anggrini, Jaringan Nasional Advokasi Pekerja Rumah Tangga (JALAPRT), Indonesia
• Maria del Mar Ortolano
• Mary Anne Abunda
• Carmen Almeida
• Nellie Dina Kahua

Tuesday, 23 March: 8:00AM – 9:30AM EDT

Tackling gender inequality through a care economy

CSW65 informal side event

The Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, in partnership with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) hosted a discussion on the role of the care economy in future of work policy discussions, and opportunities within COVID-19 recovery efforts to better recognize and compensate the labor performed by care workers.

Speakers

• Faiza Shaheen, Inequality and Exclusion Program Lead, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
• Chidi King, Director, Equality Department, ITUC
• María Lucía Scuro, Social Affairs Officer, Division for Gender Affairs, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• Rachel Moussié, Deputy Director, WIEGO Social Protection Programme
• Ian Goldin, Oxford University
• TBD, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Wednesday, 24 March: 9:00AM – 11:00AM EDT

Coming Together, Forming Enterprises, Entering the Economy.

Organized by SEWA Bharat.

The session sought to highlight women’s CSEs as a model for women’s economic empowerment, discuss collective strength, representation and bargaining and allied benefits, and share stories of leadership from the ground. It looked to identify ways to support women’s enterprises culminating in a set of recommendations and action points for relevant stakeholders.

Speakers

• Renana Jhabvala, President, SEWA Bharat

• Tsigie Haile, Director WISE

• Mirai Chatterjee, Chairperson SEWA Cooperative Federation

• Elizabeth Vazquez, Co-founder & CEO WEConnect International

• Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women

• Alka Upadhyay, Additional Secretary MoRD, Govt. of India

• Madhu Krishna, Deputy Director Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Tsigie Tadale, Advisor, State Minister, Ministry of Women, Children and Youth, Govt. Of Ethiopia