<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">TRADUCIR/TRADUIRE <a href="http://deepl.com">deepl.com</a> <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sarojini N</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sarojini_n@phmovement.org">sarojini_n@phmovement.org</a>></span><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span>International Workers’ Day: Day of Solidarity</span>
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<div><p>Statement by Gender Justice and Health Thematic Circle, People’s Health Movement (PHM)</p><p><br>As
we commemorate International Workers' Day this week, the Gender Justice
and Health Thematic Circle of the People’s Health Movement (PHM),
reflects on how women’s work, particularly that of the most
marginalized, racialized, gender non-binary people, and those living
with disabilities, continues to be undervalued and invisibilized.</p><p>Women
and gender non-binary persons are concentrated in the most precarious
forms of labour such as women workers in agriculture and mining, sex
workers, migrant workers, women workers in factories, gig workers, and
domestic workers, frontline workers to name a few.</p><p>Through class,
race, caste, gender identity, gender expression, disability, ethnicity,
migratory and refugee status, and amid widening structural inequality
and intersecting economic, social, and climate crises, women and gender
non-binary workers are facing discrimination, social stigma, poor access
to healthcare, physical and sexual abuse, a lack of fair wages, a lack
of legal protection, a lack of social security and protection measures
against exposure to chemicals and health crises, growing labour
exploitation and repression by way of corporate union-busting, state
authoritarianism, and the use of labour-displacing.</p><p>Despite making
up 70% of the health workforce across health systems, women and gender
non-binary persons only hold 25% of leadership roles. Importantly, this
includes the majority of community health workers who are women
volunteers or in the lowest-paid roles; they often work in unsafe
conditions and readily pay out-of-pocket for their materials and
equipment, despite being essential for the reorientation of health
systems towards people-centred primary health care. Women health workers
have tremendous potential to contribute to the realization of the goal
of health for all. However, they face multiple challenges, including
systemic and policy-level resistance, which are often rooted in gender
power relations.</p><p>Finally, women, in particular, play an important
role within the care economy for their work in social reproduction, as
mothers, wives, caregivers, and domestic partners provide unpaid and
undervalued labour in addition to their paid work while accumulating
additional health costs.</p><p>The crisis of systemic violence demands
greater accountability, gender justice, and fair policy and state
responses. There is a pressing need for more public voices, demands, and
solidarity to address these issues.</p><p>We call for:</p><ul><li>Legal
and political recognition of all forms of informal or precarious work
for people of all genders, including improved pay, safe working
conditions, and the provision of social and legal protection, as a
pathway to improved health, well-being, and dignity.</li><li>A radical
redress of gender inequity in the health workforce, including the
provision of pay and benefits packages for community health workers who
are critical for upholding the right to health for all in their
communities,</li><li>The rolling back of gender-discriminatory labour and social policies that consign the burden of unpaid caregiving work to women.</li><li>Democratized,
decommodified, deprivatised and publicly-funded health systems that can
meet the needs of the world’s working class.</li><li>An increase in women’s participation in the economy towards their human and labour rights.<br> </li></ul><p>Long live International Workers Day!<br>Long live International Feminist Solidarity!<br>#LabourDay #MayDay <br></p><p>Here are the links for language versions of the Statement<br></p></div></div></div><div><ol><li><a href="https://phmovement.org/international-workers-day-day-solidarity" target="_blank">https://phmovement.org/international-workers-day-day-solidarity</a></li><li><a href="https://phmovement.org/ar/ywm-almal-alalmy-byan-ywm-altdamn-mn-mjmwt-aldalt-aljnsanyt-walsht-lhrkt-sht-alshwb" target="_blank">https://phmovement.org/ar/ywm-almal-alalmy-byan-ywm-altdamn-mn-mjmwt-aldalt-aljnsanyt-walsht-lhrkt-sht-alshwb</a></li><li><a href="https://phmovement.org/es/dia-internacional-de-los-trabajadores-jornada-de-solidaridad" target="_blank">https://phmovement.org/es/dia-internacional-de-los-trabajadores-jornada-de-solidaridad</a></li><li><a href="https://phmovement.org/fr/international-workers-day-solidarity" target="_blank">https://phmovement.org/fr/international-workers-day-solidarity</a></li></ol></div></div>
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