The Right to Care: A Feminist Legal Victory That Could Change the Americas By Inés M. Pousadela Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/08/the-right-to-care-a-feminist-legal-victory-that-could-change-the-americas/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Rare_Earths_a_New_Technological_and_Industrial_Dream_in_Brazil_UN_Reforms_Include_Painful_Staff_Redu MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 28 2025 (IPS) - On 7 August, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered a groundbreaking decision that could transform women’s lives across the Americas. For the first time in international law, an international tribunal recognised care as an autonomous human right. Advisory Opinion 31/25, issued in response to a request from Argentina, elevates care – long invisible and relegated to the private sphere – to the level of a universal enforceable entitlement. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.