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In this context, it becomes increasingly clear how gender violence is a structural device against which a perspective of systemic transformation must be activated, with initiatives ranging from educational prevention to workplace measures.
**Further Readings:**
- [Home Is Not A Safe Place For Everyone](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/domestic-violence-coronavirus_n_5e6a6ac1c5b6bd8156f3641b)
- [Pandemic Inequalities, Pandemic Demands](https://www.weareplanc.org/blog/pandemic-inequalities-pandemic-demands/) by Plan C.
**Further Resources:**
[Survival kit for men under pressure](https://www.maenner.ch/fr/corona/)
- [Survival kit for men under pressure](https://www.maenner.ch/fr/corona/)
Three umbrella organizations with expertise in working with boys, men and fathers in Germany (Bundesforum Männer), Austria (Dachverband Männerarbeit Österreich) and Switzerland (männer.ch) published a "Survival kit for men under pressure ”. The document makes recommendations for self-management to help men get through this crisis without using violence. This leaflet is available in
Français, Deutsch, Italiano, English, Español, Português, Türkçe, Kurdî (Kurmancî), Shqip, Srpsko-hrvatski, Al-ʿarabiyya, Fārsī, Tamil, Tigriññā, Somali, Russkiy, Polski, Magyar, Slovenský, Nederlands. (Links from main webpage)
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> We are the invisible workers. We are the ones who get up at 5am in the morning, but nobody sees us. The only trace of our existence is the cleaning we do, which often goes unnoticed, as it is taken for granted. But we exist, we are here too. We too, the workers of the hospital cleaning service, are doing everything we can to make our organization as safe as possible during this period. We are here, despite the fact that no one talks about us, despite the fears, given the risks that we and our families are facing. We are here and we work, even if our collective bargaining agreement expired years ago, leaving us with ridiculous wages. Yes, we are working too, unceasingly like others, for ourselves and for the whole community.
**Source:**
- [Sveglia allalba per ospedali lindi e in ordine: limportanza delle addette alle pulizie](https://www.bergamonews.it/2020/03/12/sveglia-allalba-per-ospedali-lindi-e-in-ordine-limportanza-delle-addette-alle-pulizie/358865/)
Furthermore, even the economic redistributive measures set aside by the Italian government after a few weeks from the start of the pandemic, the "Cura Italia" decree, do not seem to 'see' care workers in the domestic and assistance sector. The measures in favor of this sector, in fact, are vague and not sufficient, also because many of the people who carry out these tasks are unregular workers and mostly migrants. Instead, it is precisely from this sector that we should start again to think of a new form of 'care democracy'.
**Source:**
- [Italian reserchers care call](https://elan.jus.unipi.it/blog/towards-a-caring-democracy/)
Another request, on the European scale, sets that it has become absolutely necessary to support care providers through an income that recognizes their public function and helps them carry it out in the best possible way. This document starts from the [Green New Deal for Europe](https://www.gndforeurope.com/) platform.
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In the UK, cleaning, portering and catering staff at Lewisham Hospital - where Coronavirus cases have been treated - have walked out after private contractor ISS failed to pay the wages of the hospital workers.
**Source:**
- [Cleaners in coronavirus-hit London hospital walk out after private contractor fails to pay wages](https://www.gmb-southern.org.uk/news/cleaners-walk-out-lewisham-hospital-contractor-fails-pay-wages)
In the meanwhile, a recent report on carework released by the NGO Oxfam estimates that:
> Taxing an additional 0.5% of the wealth of the richest 1% over the next 10 years is equal to investments needed to create 117 million jobs in education, health and elderly careand other sectors,and to close care deficits.
**Source:**
- [Time to Care. Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis. Oxfam briefing Paper, January 2020.](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/620928/bp-time-to-care-inequality-200120-en.pdf)
**Further Resources:**
UK - SWARM HARDSHIP FUND (https://www.swarmcollective.org). The Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM) is a sex worker led collective based in the UK. The project was founded in 2009 to advocate for the rights of everyone who sells sexual services. Thet set up a hardship fund to help the sex workers who are most in need. All donations made to SWARM until 30th April will go directly to this fund.
- SWARM HARDSHIP FUND (https://www.swarmcollective.org). The Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM) is a sex worker led collective based in the UK. The project was founded in 2009 to advocate for the rights of everyone who sells sexual services. Thet set up a hardship fund to help the sex workers who are most in need. All donations made to SWARM until 30th April will go directly to this fund.
# Other resources from the Pirate Care Syllabus