A/HRC/53/39
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 April 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-third session
19 June–14 July 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Gendered inequalities of poverty: feminist and human rightsbased approaches
Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and
girls
Summary
In the present report, the Working Group focuses on poverty and socioeconomic
inequality as outcomes of systemic failures that violate multiple human rights of women and
girls. The Working Group analyses the cross-cutting conditions of gendered socioeconomic
inequality and examines the structural discrimination and drivers within political, economic,
cultural and social systems which cause, perpetuate and deepen women’s and girls’
experiences of poverty and inequality. It draws attention to the deficiencies of dominant
economic models and methods in accurately capturing, measuring and addressing the impact
of poverty and socioeconomic inequality on the rights and substantive equality of women
and girls, and it highlights promising alternative approaches.
In its recommendations to States, and to international organizations and corporations,
the Working Group insists upon the urgency of reframing poverty and inequality within and
between countries as issues of global concern that necessitate integrated responses informed
by intersectional feminist and human rights-based approaches.
GE.23-06173(E)