The Care Pavilion explores community-based experiences, addresses gender-based violence, and reflects on peace, intersectionality, and decent work on its third day.
The Care Pavilion, convened by the Global Alliance for Care, marked its third day of activities today as part of the 16th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mexico City, August 12, 2025
The Care Pavilion, convened by the Global Alliance for Care, marked its third day of activities today within the framework of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The day was marked by the prominence of community experiences, the analysis of gender-based violence in relation to care, and proposals to advance towards decent work.
The morning began with the workshop “Envisioning Alternative Ways of Redistributing and Participating in Care Work”, which focused on collective tools to challenge traditional gender roles and build new forms of shared responsibility.
Later, the session “Sowing Care, Harvesting Peace” brought together testimonies from Colombian women signatories and defenders, showing how care can serve as a pillar for peacebuilding in post-conflict contexts. In parallel, the panel “From Ecatepec” highlighted community practices aimed at building a care-centered society in territories marked by structural inequalities.
In the auditorium, the conversation “The Centrality of Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Care Society”, organized by Oxfam and EQUIS Justice for Women, explored how the prevention and response to such violence must be integrated into care policies as an essential condition for ensuring substantive equality.
The afternoon brought new perspectives: the interactive workshop “Building Pathways Towards Sustainable Care”, developed using the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology, allowed participants to explore scenarios for transforming care systems in a participatory way. Simultaneously, the session on “Care from the Perspective of LGBT People” addressed analyses and visions from lesbian, bisexual, and trans activists in the field of care.
The panel “Care from the Perspective of Civil Society” provided input from feminist organizations with the aim of advancing policies that make the right to care a reality in Latin America and the Caribbean, followed by the dialogue “Decent Work for Social Care Workers”, which presented a joint agenda among trade unions, international organizations, and civil society to dignify working conditions in the sector.
The day also featured a colloquium and screening of the Mexican film Los Lobos, further establishing the Pavilion as a diverse space that blends political analysis, territorial experiences, and cultural expressions around care.
To close the day, the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) hosted the conversation and reception “How to Build Transformative Care Systems in Latin America?”, which brought together experts, institutional representatives, and social organizations in a space for dialogue and exchange to imagine and project possible futures for the region.
Highlights for Wednesday, August 13
Starting tomorrow and until August 15, the Care Pavilion will move to the Centro de Estudios Interculturales Nezahualcóyotl.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
9:00–10:30 | Presentation of the Study: Domestic Work and Care Work | Nuestra Casa / Ve’e Yo Auditorium
9:00–10:30 | Contributions of Women Community Caregivers to Sustainable Development and the Care Economy | Pájaro / Tsin Su Room
10:00–11:30 | Presentation of the Report Feeding is Caring | Conejo / Awani Room
10:45–11:45 | Time and Rights for Women and Persons with Disabilities | Nuestra Casa / Ve’e Yo Auditorium
11:00–13:00 | Caring from the Territory: Practices, Infrastructure, and Power | Pájaro / Tsin Su Room
12:00–13:30 | The Role of Persons with Disabilities in Care and Support Systems | Nuestra Casa / Ve’e Yo Auditorium
12:00–13:30 | The Challenges of Care Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean from a Feminist Perspective | Conejo / Awani Room
13:30–15:00 | Psychoactive Substance Use and Gender: Between Stigma and Agency | Pájaro / Tsin Su Room
13:45–14:45 | Care is Also Work: Towards Labor Policies that Recognize Care Work | Conejo / Awani Room
14:00–15:30 | Better, But Too Slow. Presentation of the ISOQuito | Nuestra Casa / Ve’e Yo Auditorium
15:00–16:00 | Presentation of the Book The Right to Social Security and Care Responsibilities | Conejo / Awani Room
15:30–18:00 | Community Care Systems: The Experience of the Colombian Peace Accord Signatories | Pájaro / Tsin Su Room
16:30–18:00 | Towards Climate Justice Centered on Care and Support | Nuestra Casa / Ve’e Yo Auditorium
17:30–18:45 | Feminist Reflections Towards Cultural Change in the Care Society | Conejo / Awani Room
