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- Care work
Care work may be paid or unpaid. It refers to the provision of care and support to people, including children and other persons, as well as housework and voluntary community work in a private context (e.g. families) or in the public care sector (e.g. health professionals). Data from 2020 show that as a global average, around 75 per cent of unpaid care work is performed by women.
- CEDAW
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Classism
Classism is a form of discrimination which involves exclusion and disadvantage based on people’s socioeconomic status. Classist patterns of thought and behaviour lead to oppression based on actual or assumed social origin and status. This form of discrimination affects persons of lower socioeconomic status and extends beyond prejudice. Like sexism and racism, for example, classism is socially and structurally embedded.
- Conflict-related Sexual Violence
The term refers to to rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced marriage, and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity.
- COP
United Nations Climate Change Conference
- CRI
Gender-responsive Climate Risk Insurance