{"id":3998,"date":"2024-05-08T06:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipaslac.org\/mothers-day-the-right-to-care-is-necessary-to-ensure-free-and-desired-motherhood\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:15:23","slug":"mothers-day-the-right-to-care-is-necessary-to-ensure-free-and-desired-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipaslac.org\/en\/mothers-day-the-right-to-care-is-necessary-to-ensure-free-and-desired-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers&#8217; Day: the right to care is necessary to ensure free and desired motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Motherhood, nurturing and care, historically, have been attributed to women and feminized identities, who have been assigned family welfare and domestic work without economic remuneration.<br \/>&#8211; In the region, only 14 countries guarantee the minimum number of weeks of paid maternity leave established by the International Labor Organization (ILO).<br \/>&#8211; The longest paternity leaves are barely 20 days (in Mexico) and in some cases do not exceed two days (in Argentina). Mothers assume the burden of care for almost the entire postpartum period. This inequality can have serious consequences for their development and well-being.  <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Almost half of pregnancies in the world are unwanted, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report in 2022. For women, adolescents, girls and people with childbearing capacity, the reproductive decision that will henceforth define their lives, i.e., deciding whether or not to continue the pregnancy, is not an option that is left in their hands. <\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The ability to decide when, how, and whether or not to become a mother is fundamental for people to be able to follow their life plans free of stereotypes and gender roles. Therefore, it is essential to support their reproductive autonomy, the right of each person to choose, so that motherhood is a decision and not a sentence of death, poverty or loss of health, as happens in many cases. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The UNFPA report notes that:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; More than 60% of unintended pregnancies end in abortion.<br \/>&#8211; Approximately 45% of all abortions performed worldwide are unsafe.<br \/>&#8211; Unsafe abortions are the cause of 13% of maternal deaths.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong><br \/>Motherhood and care work<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Socially, motherhood has been associated with life-sustaining work, without remuneration or recognition. Gender inequality in these jobs determines access to health services and the formal labor market. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Worldwide, women spend 3.2 times more time than men on caregiving tasks, but in Latin America the gap is even wider: women spend almost 20% of their day on unpaid and unrecognized care work, while men spend just over 7%. This inequality is reflected in greater barriers for women to access the formal labor market and widens the wage gap and informal employment rates. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In Mexico, for example, according to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), 25 million women depend on a family member to access public health services; in the case of men, this figure is reduced to half. Why is this situation? Public health is related to labor formality.  <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>They are the ones who prioritize employment in flexible jobs in order to be able to continue with their other caregiving tasks. IMCO points out that the most prevalent employment benefits among women caregivers are those that allow them to: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; 73% were absent to carry out some formality.<br \/>&#8211; 67% absent to care for someone else.<br \/>&#8211; 40% to bring their sons, daughters and children to the workplace.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Inequality in care represents an obstacle for women and people with the capacity to bear children to develop professionally. Therefore, the decision to continue, or not, a pregnancy is linked to reproductive autonomy. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong><br \/>Care and reproductive autonomy<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In March of this year, Ipas LAC, in collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights and more than 10 civil society organizations, petitioned the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to recognize the right to care as a right that guarantees that all people can make decisions for themselves, that is, that they can decide about their own bodies, their lives and their health, without pressure, discrimination or violence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Likewise, the link between this right and reproductive autonomy should be recognized:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>By exercising the right to care for someone else in order to guarantee that this decision is made under conditions of freedom, equality of time, money and services (for example, to have access to a day care center).<br \/>2. By exercising the right to be cared for, cared for or cared for.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In the latter case, forced maternity (due to the criminalization of abortion) directly affects infants and adolescents, who are in need of care. And, on the other hand, non-compliance with this right in pregnant girls and adolescents affects their access to education and paid and formal work, in addition to implying risks to their physical and mental health. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Among the petitions submitted to the Court were:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Implement care policies from a rights-based, intersectional and intercultural perspective, including paid parental and family leave, quality early childhood care infrastructure and services, and income transfers for care purposes.<br \/>&#8211; Legalize abortion and other reproductive health services, so that people choose to care freely and be cared for when it comes to pregnancies in girls and adolescents.<br \/>Remove barriers to access to legal abortion and ensure the practice in confidentiality, without prerequisites, such as consent or approval of third parties.<br \/>&#8211; To offer quality, intersectional, intercultural, physically accessible, affordable and culturally acceptable services so that rural, rural, indigenous and racialized women and girls can make informed and free decisions regarding abortion and reproductive health practices.<br \/>&#8211; Approve mifepristone and misoprostol for obstetric and gynecological use to facilitate self-managed abortion, and develop information guides on safe abortion practices, in clear language and adapted to indigenous peoples&#8217; languages, in order to guarantee the right to self-care.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">To learn more about the application before the Court, please refer to:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ipaslac.org\/uploads\/1710358736426_ES_ARCHIVO_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The content and scope of the right to care and its interrelation with other rights.&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The infographics are also available for download:<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ipaslac.org\/documents\/Una%20opinion%20consultiva%20que%20reconozca%20el%20derecho%20al%20cuidado.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An advisory opinion recognizing the right to care<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ipaslac.org\/documents\/El%20cuidado%20debe%20ser%20un%20derecho%20fundamental.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Care should be a fundamental right___.<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Beatrice Fabiani (2023).  <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.iadb.org\/es\/cuidando-los-cuidadores-el-panorama-del-trabajo-de-cuidados-remunerados-en-america-latina-y-el\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caring for workers: the landscape of paid care work in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank. <\/a><br \/>&#8211; Diana Tamara Mart\u00ednez Ruiz, Ver\u00f3nica Montes de Oca Zavala and Sandra Lorenzano Schifrin (coordinators) (2023).  <a href=\"https:\/\/decadacovid.humanidades.unam.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/DCM_tomo-9_genero-violencia-tareas-cuidado.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gender, violence, care tasks and social responses to the crisis. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico. <\/a><br \/>&#8211; United Nations Population Fund (2022).  <a href=\"https:\/\/colombia.un.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-03\/1.%20Comunicado%20de%20prensa%20Estado%20de%20la%20Poblaci%C3%B3n%20Mundial%202022.pdf#:~:text=El%20informe%20sobre%20el%20Estado%20de%20la%20Poblaci%C3%B3n,y%20oportunidades%20que%20presentan%20para%20el%20desarrollo%20internacional.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The State of World Population Report.  <\/a><br \/>&#8211; Ipas LAC (2024).  <a href=\"https:\/\/ipaslac.org\/blog\/2024\/2024\/llamado_a_la_corte_interamericana_para_reconocer_el_cuidado_como_derecho_humano_y_su_relacion_con_la_autonomia_reproductiva\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call to the Inter-American Court to recognize care as a human right and its relationship to reproductive autonomy.<\/a><br \/>&#8211; Paola V\u00e1zquez (2024).  <a href=\"https:\/\/imco.org.mx\/de-quien-depende-la-salud-de-las-mujeres\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On whom does women&#8217;s health depend? Mexican Institute for Competitiveness. <\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> <\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; show_divider=&#8221;off&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Contact us to arrange an interview with our spokespersons:<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\"><strong>Irene V\u00e1zquez Gudi\u00f1o<\/strong><br \/>Media Liaison Coordinator<br \/>+52 55 3428 0544<br \/><a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"mailto:vazquezi@ipas.org\">vazquezi@ipas.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Motherhood, nurturing and care, historically, have been attributed to women and feminized identities, who have been assigned family welfare and domestic work without economic remuneration.- In the region, only 14 countries guarantee the minimum number of weeks of paid maternity leave established by the International Labor Organization (ILO).- The longest paternity leaves are barely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"country":[103,105,104,80,54,81,82,83,84,85,86],"post-type":[141],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-argentina-en","country-chile-en","country-colombia-en","country-costa-rica-en","country-ecuador-en","country-el-salvador-en","country-guatemala-en","country-honduras-en","country-mexico-en","country-nicaragua-en","country-panama-en","post-type-press-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mothers&#039; 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