Civic organisations from across the world ask whether this moment will go down in history as yours truly stepping up to the challenge, or the moment when you caved in to powerful elites
Dear G20 finance ministers, central bank governors and heads of state
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching us a lesson about the importance of care, equity and balance. The health crisis is hitting virtually every country and community. Although the virus does not discriminate based on race, gender or class, human systems do. As with the deepening climate crisis, the vulnerable, the poor, women and the excluded are the ones paying the highest price.
It means addressing gender-based violence and ensuring adequate pay and safe working conditions for care workers — during the crisis, but above all in the long term. Building more equal feminist economies that support men and women caregivers through paid sick, family and medical leave from work. It also means enacting nationally and globally equitable solutions to the climate crisis, so that no one is unfairly left behind to deal with the effects of climate change.
As the decision-makers in the richest countries on the planet, you are expected to make these decisions in the interests of the many. Those trillions of dollars are our money. The lives at stake are our lives. The future hanging in the balance is our future. You have a responsibility towards present and future generations to be loyal stewards of the public good.
You are still in time to make the right call and make sure that the resources available for the recovery will be spent on reducing inequalities, ensuring gender justice, repairing injustice, recognising and putting an end to structural racism, avoiding climate change and the resulting extinction of entire ecosystems.
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