Simeen Mahmud, Coordinator, CGST, Maheen Sultan, Deputy Coordinator, CGST, Dr. Sohela Nazneen, Lead Researcher, CGST and Lopita Huq, Research Fellow, CGST, BRAC University participated in a meeting and panel discussion on “Who Cares: Unpaid work, poverty and women’s human rights” organized jointly by Action Aid international, IDS, University of Sussex and Oxfam on October 07-08 in London. UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona presented a report where unpaid care work was positioned as a major human rights issue. Simeen Mahmud reported on CGST's current work on unpaid care work at the workshop. Activists and researchers from different countries and UN agency workers participated in the panel discussion. The discussion focused on women caregivers, particularly those living in poverty, and participants argued that heavy and unequal care responsibilities are major barriers to gender equality and to women’s equal enjoyment of human rights. Participants also discussed strategies to place unpaid care on human rights and other development agenda