A/HRC/44/51 unions and collective organizing. In this context, there is a need for new approaches and strategies for collective action and organizing. 54. For women in informal work, collective action through cooperatives has helped women to pool resources, realize economies of scale and access markets. Savings and selfhelp groups have been shown to support women’s livelihoods and strengthen their agency, voice and participation in households and communities more broadly. Making work decent and more remunerative, overcoming discrimination and redefining negative social norms are among the common goals that organizations of informal workers seek to achieve through collective organizing. 55. Important lessons can be drawn from existing women’s cooperatives, which have often formed to bring women workers together to address basic and practical needs and then shifted to focus on identifying collective priorities and strategies for change. Technological advances also provide new opportunities to organize women workers across issues, sectors and borders. The complex challenge of achieving a just transition, with gender equality as a priority, also requires cross-movement solidarity between women’s, labour, environmental and indigenous movements. Strategies to increase women’s participation and leadership within trade unions is critical both as a matter of equality and to ensure that gender-specific concerns are prioritized in collective bargaining agreements and in the culture of spaces where workers unionize. Supporting women’s collective action in the changing world of work, including ensuring their freedom of association, free from violence and intimidation, is critical to realizing women’s rights to work and at work. Box 6 Promising practices Using technology to organize women workers In a country in Latin America with a large domestic worker population, an app was created to empower domestic workers. The app includes salary and benefit calculators, as well as information on the rights of domestic workers and help locating the nearest union. The #MeToo movement saw countless women share their experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace, collectively organize for change and hold perpetrators to account. The movement was facilitated through social media and technology, which allowed women to connect around the globe. Organizing women in informal work A trade union for poor women workers in the informal sector was founded over four decades ago in a South Asian country, organizing members across a range of jobs to focus on work security, income security, food security and social security – in addition to improving their organizational strength, collective bargaining and leadership skills. It brought together unions, the women’s movement and women’s collectives. Today the movement has spread across several countries in South Asia with members owning and managing their own institutions. Building alliances across social movements A movement in Latin America advancing the rights of women peasants is simultaneously focused on promoting a vision of small-scale peasant farming based on ecological conservation and food sovereignty while also calling for women’s equal access to and control over land, agricultural inputs and natural resources. E. Reimagining the structure of work and the economy 56. Realizing women’s human rights in the changing world of work requires a fundamental transformation of the structure of work and the economy. Recent decades have seen increasing labour market deregulation, increased outsourcing across global supply chains, the proliferation of short-term contracts and the growth of “just in time” 16