ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the relationships between gender equity, sustainability and human rights, and some aspects of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on black women’s life situations in positions of increased socio-environmental vulnerability. The great paradox that can be overcome to achieve gender equity at the global level is to create the objective social and economic conditions to overcome the feminization of poverty. In Brazil, the last three years proved to be even more complicated for women, especially for black women, poor and living on the outskirts of large Brazilian cities. S. R. C. Seixas and J. L. M. Hoefel emphasize that efforts to achieve a fair and sustainable future must recognize the rights, dignity and capacities of the population worldwide, considering the role of gender equity to accomplish these goals as fundamental.
