A/HRC/53/39 girls to receive gender-responsive care or to exercise self-care and collective care. 38 Neoliberal policy choices and market-driven “solutions”, including those promoted by multilateral economic institutions, have often co-opted or dismantled transformative economic agendas and have had a devastating impact on the human rights of diverse groups of women and girls around the world.39 As one of the women in the consultations observed, “we are not poor, we are being impoverished”. 22. Feminist proposals for economic, social and environmental justice call for the implementation of processes and principles that are grounded in human rights and in an integrated concept of ecological and social sustainability, as alternatives to economic growthbased models of development. 40 These visions for a more equal world promote inclusive democratic participation in global economic governance, substantive equality and intersectional approaches through their support for feminist and cross-movement alliancebuilding with diverse social groups. They also focus on the redistribution of wealth and resources for all and a shift away from excessive consumption, production and extraction towards an equitable global trade order, tax and debt justice, corporate accountability, and the realization of the right to development.41 23. Several social movements are championing a feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal which would entail a redistribution and revalidation of labour, and investments in the care sector, as well as reimagining global public commons and goods so that they are used equitably and sustainably. 42 Feminist workers’ alliances are also engaged in the development of alternative economic policies that would promote climate-friendly jobs, including those in social care, fundamental rights at work that emphasize adequate wages and maximum hours of work, universal social protection with a global social protection solidarity fund, an emphasis on substantive gender, race and socioeconomic equality and an inclusive agenda for peace and sustainable development.43 C. Gendered inequalities and international human rights: the right to live free from poverty and socioeconomic inequality 24. The right to live free from poverty and inequality must be examined as a multidimensional civil, political, social, environmental and cultural right and not only in terms of economic deprivation.44 During its consultations, the Working Group heard from numerous stakeholders about the cross-cutting ways in which gender-based and other intersectional inequalities shape and reinforce women’s and girls’ diverse experiences of poverty. 25. Poverty is created, enabled and perpetuated by acts and omissions of States and other economic actors, and failures to address structural and systemic inequalities through coherent and targeted policies further entrench poverty.45 Since 2013, jurisprudence derived from the individual complaints mechanism developed by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 8 ECLAC, Buenos Aires Commitment (LC/CRM.15/6); and ECLAC, The Care Society (LC/CRM.15/3). Association for Women’s Rights in Development, “Gender impact investing and the rise of false solutions: an analysis for feminist movements” (2023). Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for relations with the Committee on World Food Security, “Voices from the ground 2: transformative solutions to the global systemic food crises” (2022); and Susan Paulson, “Degrowth and feminisms ally to forge care-full paths beyond the pandemic”, Interface, vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 232–246. Global Alliance for Tax Justice and others, Framing Feminist Taxation (2021). Feminist Economic Justice for People and Planet Action Nexus, “A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal” (2021). Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Francisco Cantamutto, eds., The IMF and Human Rights: Interviews (2021). Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 36 (2019); A/77/157; and Jackie Dugard and others, eds., Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2020). A/HRC/21/39, para. 5. GE.23-06173