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Verónica Montúfar

Equalities Officer

veronica.montufar@world-psi.org

Verónica Montúfar is a sociologist and a political scientist with a master’s degree in Political Sociology. PSI's Gender Equality Officer.

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Professional background:

Gender History Research (1989-1991).
Human Rights as the executive secretary of Amnesty International in Ecuador (1991-1996).
Trade Union educator at the Ecuadorean National Trade Union Center-CEOSL (1997-2001).
Started working for PSI in 2002, as Project Coordinator for the Andean Region in the field of educating and organizing women. Since 2015, was appointed as the Gender Equality Officer.

Care as a human right is advancing through its explicit recognition in the legislation of Ecuador, which has become the first country in the world to affirm it as the right of people to care, to take care of themselves and to be cared for, with the State as their guarantor. Previously, only the Constitution of Mexico City in 2017, stipulated that "every person has the right to care that sustains his or her life and grants him or her the material and symbolic elements to live in society."

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Ecuador approves law guaranteeing human right to care

Aug 04, 2023
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International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day

Jul 24, 2023
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Occupational Safety and Health and Violence and Harassment in the World of Work

Jul 20, 2023
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General survey discussion "Achieving gender equality at work"

Jun 14, 2023
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Webinar - The Social Organisation of Care: A Global Snapshot

Oct 29, 2021
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PSI has commissioned a study that focuses on the state of care arrangements in different countries around the world that will contribute to the discussion on how an agenda for transformation could be advanced. An agenda that will rebuild the social organisation of care, based on the principles of social co-responsibility, equality, and decent work.