Centrality of Care and Support From a Human Rights Perspective

A/HRC/RES/54/6View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2023.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Care Economy Caregivers Gender Equality Human Rights Social Policy Women's Rights

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13 operative paragraphs

Recognizes the importance of respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of paid and unpaid caregivers and care and support recipients;

Expresses deep concern at the unequal distribution and organization of care and support work and their impact on the rights of all women and girls, in society and in the economy;

Recognizes that the equal distribution of care and support work and resulting distribution of time is a fundamental basis to achieve gender equality;

Urges States:

To implement all measures necessary to recognize and redistribute care work among individuals, as well as families, communities, the private sector and States, in a manner that promotes gender equality and the enjoyment of human rights by all;

To increase investment in care and support policies and infrastructure to ensure universal access to affordable and quality services for all, including childcare, and health and support services for persons with disabilities and older persons, and to ensure universal access to paid maternity, paternity and parental leave and social protection for all workers, including for both informal workers and those in non-standard forms of employment;

To encourage and support research and surveys aimed at producing data disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, civil status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, and statistics on the extent and distribution of time use and care work and its providers and recipients, through regular time-use surveys and the establishment of satellite accounts to assess the contribution of such work to national income, and to quantify unpaid care work, and to include it in the gross national product for the purpose of designing, financing and assessing policies in this area;

To adopt all measures necessary to enable the full, equal, meaningful and inclusive participation of women, persons with disabilities and older persons, as well as children, in decision-making relevant to care and support, in both private and public life, including social dialogue and collective bargaining by paid care workers;

To raise awareness about the negative impact of gender, disability and age stereotypes in providing care and receiving care and support, and to develop programmes and policies to eliminate such stereotypes;

Decides:

To request the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize a two-day expert workshop, in an accessible format, with inputs from interested States, international organizations, the private sector and civil society, particularly women’s organizations, including grass-roots women’s organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, child rights organizations, older persons and their representative organizations and representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations, to address the human rights of women, persons with disabilities, children and older persons as caregivers, as well as receivers of care and support, and for their self-care from a gender equality and human rights perspective, with the objective of evaluating experiences, good practices and main challenges regarding the effective recognition of the rights of caregivers and those receiving care and support;

Also to request the High Commissioner, based on the discussions at the aforementioned expert workshop and in consultation with States Members of the United Nations and other interested parties, to prepare a comprehensive thematic study on the human rights dimension of care and support, summarizing and compiling international standards and good practices and main challenges at the national level in care and support systems, and including recommendations on promoting and ensuring the human rights of caregivers and care and support recipients, requiring contributions to be submitted in an accessible format, and further to request that such stakeholder contributions, the study itself and an easy-to-read-version of it be made available on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in an accessible format, prior to the fifty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council;

Also decides to review progress in the implementation of the present resolution as a matter of priority at its future sessions.

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