Inclusive And Gender-Sensitive Maternity Protection And Care System In ThE ASEAN ECONOMY

We recommend that ASEAN member states:

1. Recognise care services, social protection and safety protection as rights of all workers, including refugees, Orang Asli, stateless individuals and informal labourers without exception and discrimination.

2. Extend maternity protection to workers in informal employment, particularly the self-employed and ratify the ILO Convention 183 on maternity protection.

3. Expand the quality of child care, child allowances and family benefits for all workers

4. Recognise long-term care rights as integral to universal social protection and healthcare

5. Invest more to ensure accessible, adequate and affordable public health care services to all people, especially mothers and newborns. Recognise and support the roles of cooperatives and social solidarity economy entities in care provision.

Thematic Group Organisations

1. Martabat Untuk Semua Petaling Jaya

2. Persatuan Sahabat Wanita (PSWS)

3. Vision Village Malaysia

4. Yayasan Warisan Anak Selangor (YAWAS)

5. Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC)

6. Asian Roundtable on Social Protection (AROSP)

7. HomeNet Southeast Asia (HNSEA)

8. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing

For further details regarding this thematic cluster, kindly direct your inquiries to:

Name: Maria Chin Abdullah / Shweta Mohan (Martabat PJ)

Email: martabatpj@gmail.com / outreach@martabatpj.org