A/HRC/44/51
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 April 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fourth session
15 June–3 July 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Women’s human rights in the changing world of work
Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and
girls
Summary
In the present report, the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
analyses the gender dimensions of major trends changing the world of work, including
technological and demographic changes, accelerated globalization and the shift to
sustainable economies, and underlines the need to focus on the structural and systemic
discrimination already faced by women in all facets of their life, which places them at
greater risk of further discrimination. The Working Group identifies challenges to and
opportunities for women’s enjoyment of their rights to work and at work resulting from
these trends, and sets out a vision for a world of work that starts with women’s human
rights and transforms the current economic model through the redistribution of power and
resources.
GE.20-05688(E)