{"id":14871,"date":"2022-10-27T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2022-10-27T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:56:09","slug":"in-photographs-regional-conference-on-ucw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/in-photographs-regional-conference-on-ucw\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Conference on Unpaid Care Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Regional Conference on Equality and Equity in Recognising Unpaid Care Work and Women\u2019s Labour in South Asia, organised by the Women and Media Collective (WMC) in Collaboration with the Social Scientist\u2019s Association (SSA), was concluded successfully on the 20th and 21st of October 2022, at Colombo. This is the first Conference on Unpaid Care Work (UCW) to take place in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The Conference brought together academics, activists, and advocates from Sri Lanka as well as those working on the issue from South Asian countries. Participants also included district-level activists, government officials, and journalists from across the country, who contributed to the discourse on unpaid care work, especially in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The inaugural Keynote Speech<\/a> was given by Dr. Deepta Chopra from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Dr. Chopra brought out the importance of using the Unpaid Care Diamond Framework and operationalizing the 3 \u2018R\u2019s of UCW, \u2018Recognize, Reduce and Redistribute\u2019, and the additional \u2018R\u2019 of the ILO framework on UCW. This was a very interesting evaluation of feminists conceptualizing UCW within a developmental framework that is applicable especially to countries in South Asia.<\/p>\n