{"id":5544,"date":"2017-06-27T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mencare.org\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:06:53","slug":"second-ever-mencare-global-meeting-brings-together-100-practitioners-activists-researchers-50-countries-engage-men-fathers-caregivers-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mencare.org\/es\/second-ever-mencare-global-meeting-brings-together-100-practitioners-activists-researchers-50-countries-engage-men-fathers-caregivers-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"La segunda reuni\u00f3n mundial de MenCare re\u00fane a 100 profesionales, activistas e investigadores de 50 pa\u00edses para involucrar a los hombres como padres y cuidadores en pos de la igualdad de g\u00e9nero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Participants at the MenCare Global Meeting 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The MenCare Global Meeting 2017 in Belgrade, Serbia brought together nearly 100 activists, academics, and practitioners from 50 countries on June 8\u201310 to share and exchange new findings, lessons learned, and reflections from the field of engaging men as fathers and caregivers for gender equality.<\/p>\n

The MenCare campaign\u2019s second-ever global gathering sought to strengthen ties among existing members and engage new partners who had joined the campaign since the first\u00a0MenCare\u00a0meeting\u00a0in 2013; to develop new strategies for continuing the fight for gender equality amid rising challenges; and to raise the profile of men’s caregiving within the\u00a0global\u00a0advocacy agenda for\u00a02017\u00a0and beyond, including via the launch of the La situaci\u00f3n de los padres en el mundo: es hora de actuar<\/a> <\/em>informe.<\/p>\n

The meeting opened on Thursday, June 8 with remarks by Brankica Jankovic, Serbia\u2019s Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, and Vojislav Arsi\u0107, Founder and Director of Centar E8. The first day revealed key successes and lessons learned about engaging men as involved fathers and caregivers over six years of the global MenCare campaign.<\/p>\n

“The first and most important thing is that we value unpaid care. Until we value unpaid care equally to paid work, things aren’t going to change. Men are a really important part of making that change happen,” said Nikki van der Gaag, Oxfam GB’s Director of Women’s Rights and Gender Justice,\u00a0looking back at the past six years of the MenCare campaign.<\/p>\n

Hallazgos de la La situaci\u00f3n de los padres en el mundo: es hora de actuar <\/em>2017 report were unveiled on the second day of the meeting, Friday, June 9. The second-ever Estado de los padres del mundo<\/em> report, a MenCare advocacy publication produced by Equimundo, draws from nearly 100 research studies and reports, with data from nearly every country where it is available, to reveal what has stalled progress toward global gender equality and to lay out a bold agenda for men and boys doing fully 50 percent of the world\u2019s unpaid care work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe [must] pass on the message to our sons and daughters that we expect all of us to be providers and caregivers,\u201d said Gary Barker, Equimundo\u2019s President and CEO, during the launch of La situaci\u00f3n de los padres en el mundo: es hora de actuar<\/em>. \u201cFully paid leave clearly has to be part of this \u2013 paid, non-transferable, and of adequate length.\u201d<\/p>\n

The meeting\u2019s second day also featured interactive workshops with members from the MenCare campaign on diverse topics related to men and fatherhood, as well as a deep reflection on the Principios rectores de MenCare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The final day of the MenCare Global Meeting, Saturday, June 10, provided opportunities for regional break-out sessions to allow representatives from similar parts of the world to discuss joint collaboration and ways forward for MenCare.<\/p>\n

The MenCare Global Meeting 2017 was jointly hosted by Equimundo<\/a>, Centar E8<\/a>, and the MenCare Steering Committee, including Sonke Justicia de g\u00e9nero<\/a>, Salven a los ni\u00f1os<\/a>, y Alianza MenEngage<\/a>. It followed the \u201cMAN2017: Europe talks on masculinity\u201d Conference<\/a> held June 5\u20137 in Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The MenCare Global Meeting 2017 built on the work of the first MenCare Global Meeting held in South Africa in 2013, which convened nearly 100 civil society and government actors from 25 countries to formalize a set of guiding principles and create a common agenda on men\u2019s caregiving and gender equality.<\/p>\n

See photo highlights from the meeting:<\/h2>\n\n\t\t