A gender-transformative and intersectional approach to just energy transitions is necessary to dismantle entrenched inequalities, guarantee rights and ensure that new systems are designed to serve dignity and equality for all. ⚖️
This publication, developed with @unrisd.org, offers a gender-transformative approach to just transition policy and provides tools to evaluate and improve initiatives so that they address the root causes of environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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🔹 Are disproportionately affected by land dispossession linked to large-scale energy infrastructure and mining projects
🔹 Continue to bear the health impacts of indoor air pollution from unclean energy use
Across many contexts, women:
🔹 Are overrepresented in informal and caring sectors
🔹 Have limited access to social protection systems and public services
Evidence shows that climate and energy policies can reproduce structural discrimination when they ignore deeply entrenched power imbalances related to gender and fail to prioritise gender issues in the transition to low-carbon economies. ⚡⚖️
These standards are articulated in the ‘Principles for Gender Equality and Human Rights in the Energy Transition’, a framework we spearheaded to guide the transformation of current energy systems in line with human rights and gender equality. 🔎⚡
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In practice, this means:
🔹 Meaningful participation in decision-making
🔹 Equitable access to sustainable energy
🔹 Public financing aligned with equality
🔹 Accountability mechanisms that prevent new forms of exclusion
On #InternationalWomensDay, we reaffirm the importance of substantive gender equality in every sphere of life, including in the transformation of our climate and energy systems. 🌍
Transitions must be grounded in #HumanRights.
Convened with partners across civil society, international organisations and governments, the session contributes to growing global momentum to recognise care as a human right and to advance inclusive, rights-based public policies. 🤝
Building on recent legal and policy developments, the discussion will explore how justice systems and public policies can give concrete effect to the right to care, strengthen labour protections for care workers and ensure meaningful access to justice for caregivers. 🏛️
From a feminist standpoint, justice cannot be achieved without recognising, redistributing, rewarding and protecting care work, nor without dismantling gendered norms that sustain inequality. ⚖️
On 11 March, our Executive Director will join partners and policymakers in NY for a side event examining how recognising care as a human right can transform the social organisation of care and expand access to justice for women and girls. 🌍
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Through shared experiences and community perspectives, the dialogue helps build collective momentum towards equitable governance and the progressive realisation of social rights. 🏛️
Registration will be available at the venue and is open to all. 📝
#formnidialogue
This is a part of ongoing efforts to strengthen dialogue, collaboration and accountability around economic, social and cultural rights. 💬
The session brings together partners GI-ESCR, Hakijamii, The Institute for Social Accountability (TISA), Budget Talk Global, Institute of Public Finance (IPF), Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC).
🔹 How national, regional and global accountability mechanisms can help ensure that public authorities fulfil their obligations to realise these rights.
🔹 How fiscal choices, governance structures and service delivery shape people’s lived realities when accessing economic, social and cultural rights.
The conversation explores two questions:
At the People Dialogue Festival, this session brings together civil society, institutions and communities to reflect on how public debt, devolution and accountability influence access to rights in practice. 🌍
At the invitation of the National Assembly and Senate, we joined 10 national CSOs to draft and submit a joint memorandum highlighting urgent financing goals that must be addressed in this budget cycle.
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Kenya’s 2026 Budget Policy Statement (BPS) shapes how public resources influence access to quality, inclusive #Education, and therefore how fairly the system functions across the country. 📚
We will continue working with local partners to monitor implementation, follow budget decisions and advocate for policy and public service improvements to guarantee that publicly funded, inclusive early childhood #Care and #Education is guaranteed for all. 🌱📖
Financing quality public services, including early childhood care and education, is a matter of #HumanRights. 💡 When budgets are transparent, data systems are coherent, and participation is real, policies can translate into concrete improvements in children’s lives.
These recommendations echo the priorities we outlined in our joint submission, presented together with Campaña
Latinoamericana por el Derecho a la Educación, Coalición
Colombiana por el Derecho a la Educación, Fundación
Mundo Mejor, Asociación Colombiana de Educación Preescolar and OMEP Colombia.
It also recommends improving national data collection systems and ensuring meaningful participation of children, families and communities in decision-making processes.
The Committee calls for stronger measures to increase the coverage and accessibility of early childhood education and for transparent, participatory and accountable budgeting to advance children’s rights.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued its Concluding Observations on Colombia, including recommendations that address concerns we raised in a joint submission with partner organisations. 📚🇨🇴
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Junto con organizaciones aliadas, estamos coorganizando este webinar para impulsar la justicia fiscal como condición para la justicia climática y ambiental. ⚖️
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Together with partner organisations, we are co-organising this webinar to promote fiscal justice as a condition for climate and environmental justice. ⚖️
🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A decade of collective action continues to shift narratives toward strong, equitable public #Education for all, advancing social justice through public systems grounded in #HumanRights.
🔗 Learn more about PEHRC here: www.pehrc-coalition.org
