UN General Assembly adopts Compact for the Future, with commitments on care
The United Nations General Assembly adopted in September 2024 the Pact for the Future, an intergovernmental agreement containing a series of commitments to address current and future challenges.
Among the actions committed in the Pact for the Future, there are some related to investing in the care economy to achieve social development and eliminate the gender gap. Governments also committed to dismantling inequalities in the care economy and establishing and ensuring young people’s access to universal, adequate, comprehensive, sustainable, and nationally owned social protection systems.
In the Action 8, aiming at achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, the decision is to “significantly increase investments to close the gender gap, including in the care and support economy, acknowledging the linkage between poverty and gender inequality and the need to strengthen support for institutions in relation to gender equality and the empowerment of women”.
In addition, with Action 34, governments have committed to “Create decent jobs and livelihoods for youth, especially in developing countries and particularly for young women and young people in vulnerable situations, while dismantling inequalities in the care economy, and establish and ensure young people’s access to universal, adequate, comprehensive, sustainable and nationally owned social protection systems”.
