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WIDE Annual Conference Presentations

Day 2: Highlighting three thematic areas of the Care Economy


The Paid Formal and Informal Care Work

Power Relations along the Care Chains

Karin Pape,  WIEGO and Global Labour Institute: WIEGO's approach to improve the status of informal workers, especially women with special attention for domestic workers.
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Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
, University of California: The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Migrant Care Workers and Social Transformations
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Food Chains and Care Crises

Women's Right and the Right to Food


Tina Goethe, SWISSAID and WIDE Switzerland: Food Sovereignty as one answer to the Care Crisis
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Elisabeth Bürgi,
World Trade Institute: Agriculture and Care
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Body Politics and Care Regimes

Body Politics, Sexual Rights and Gender Justice


Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Akina Mama wa Africa and Resource Center for Black Women, Switzerland: LOVE ‐ LABOUR  OF  LOVE
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Sabin Bieri, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG), University of Berne:Introduction to the thematic area 3: Body politics, sexual rights and gender justice
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