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This high level opening panel kicks-off the Ibero-American Symposium on Domestic Work and Care. Ministers of Latin America will share their experiences in making domestic and care work decent work.

Cartagena

Ibero-American Symposium: Making domestic work a decent work

Gilbert F. Houngbo

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Panellists

Director-General

Spain

Yolanda Díaz Pérez

Second Vice-President and Minister of Labour and Social Economy

Argentina

Raquel Cecilia Kismer

Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security

Colombia

Gloria Inés Ramirez Rios

Minister of Labour

Chile

Jeannette Jara Román

Minister of Labour and Social Welfare

Mexico

Luisa María Alcalde Luján

Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare

Portugal

Gabriel Bastos

State Secretary for Social Security

Uruguay

Pablo Mieres Gómez

Minister of Labour and Social Security

Carolina Trevisi

Moderator

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The COVID-19 pandemic confirmed the vital role social protection plays against both systemic shocks and ordinary life-cycle risks. As the world enters a period of multiple and interconnected crises, in which poverty and inequalities are increasing alarmingly, can social protection take on the greater task of supporting fundamental human rights? ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, discuss how this might be done.

How can social protection support human rights and advance social justice?

Volker Türk

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Decades of mismanagement and misuse have intensified water stress, threatening the many aspects of life that depend on this crucial resource. Dysfunction throughout the water cycle undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace.

The <a href="https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/water2023">UN 2023 Water Conference</a>, which takes place at UN Headquarters from 22-24 March, aims to accelerate progress towards universal access to safe water and sanitation by 2030. As Chair of UN Water, ILO Director General Gilbert F. Houngbo will address the closing ceremony.

Closing of the UN 2023 Water Conference

The ILO has elaborated a strategy for the implementation of the Global Ratification Campaign with a view to support constituents to achieve the effective realization of the right to social security.&nbsp; This panel presents the importance of building national social protection systems in line with ILO social security standards, and how development partners can support the Global Ratification Campaign of the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102).

Geneva

Mobilizing the potential of ratifying ILO standards to accelerate progress towards Universal Social Protection 

Development partners meeting of the global flagship programme on building social protection floors for all 

Ibero-American Symposium: Making domestic work a decent work

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