Who cares? How the UN’s approach to the work of caring undermines the family and promotes a micromanagerial state
Within the UN system, the family has become an increasingly contentious topic. At a fundamental level, the UN deals with national governments, both in terms of how they relate to each other and what they owe to their own citizens. With regard to human rights, UN policy deals with people as individual rights holders, and is generally more accustomed to grouping them in terms of specific or “intersecting” grounds of oppression than thinking of them in terms of their membership within families.
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