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The 53rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW)

Document number
2252
Date
2009
Title
The 53rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW)
Author/publisher
International Trade Union Confederation
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
Summary
A 40-strong trade union delegation from the ITUC, Education International (EI) and Public Services International (PSI) participated in the two-week meeting which came at a time when the world is facing the worst economic downturn since the great depression of the 1930s. Impacts on working women and men and their families are set to be very severe. It is already clear that with structured inequalities in the world of work and in society, women are bearing a disproportionate burden of the impacts of the multiple crises of food, fuel, finance and climate change.

"The gender aspects of these crises must be taken fully into account in all policy responses," said ITUC President Sharan Burrow. "Women and families are falling deeper into poverty," continued Burrow. "Impacts are set to be particularly severe among women in rural areas and in the informal economy, as well as among minority and excluded groups: women living with AIDS, children, older people, migrant and domestic workers."


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