Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 58
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Owing to systematic gender inequality and discrimination, the lack of value assigned to their work, its location in the domestic sphere and the time it entails, unpaid caregivers are often chronically disempowered and unable to enjoy their right to participation in cultural, social, political and economic life (see A/HRC/23/36).
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights