Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 4
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- The line between unpaid care work and other types of unpaid work - for example in subsistence agriculture or family businesses - is not always easy to draw. However, unpaid (non-care) work is included in calculations of gross domestic product (GDP) and systems of national accounts and increasingly recognized in development programming and food security initiatives. In contrast, domestic work and caring for people has remained largely invisible in economic calculations, statistics, policy and political discourse, and is commonly undervalued by society and policy makers, despite the fact that its monetary value is estimated at from 10 to over 50 per cent of GDP. Even human rights advocates and monitoring bodies have so far paid little sustained attention to the human rights implications of unpaid care work. This is highly problematic, given that care not only contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth but also has an enormous impact on the enjoyment of human rights of both caregivers and care receivers.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 4
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