- To fight child poverty, to promote good health care or quality education, to guarantee labour rights and all other economic and social rights is not possible without a fully-fledged system of social protection. It is obvious that poverty and unemployment have serious consequences on physical and mental health and on children’s well-being. In other words, all economic and social rights are interlinked.
Ten points in favour of universal social protection and social commons
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ILO’s New Social Protection Report for 2017
Social protection is a human right, but how many benefit?
New report with disastrous but very interesting data
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Social Commons: Because social protection is ours
Social protection is high on the international agenda to-day. In 2012 the ILO (International Labour Organisation) adopted a recommendation on ‘social protection floors’. In 2015 the international community in the General Assembly of the UN (United Nations) adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a separate chapter on inequality, and explicit mention of social protection and several components of social protection in different points of the text.
Nevertheless, we should not be too optimistic about all people everywhere getting living wages, good health care, quality education, maternity protection, pensions, etc. Continue reading
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Financing Social Protection Floors through economic cycles
A side event on financing social protection floors (SPFs) was held on Monday 22 May, 2017, on the occasion of the Second Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Forum on financing for development follow-up (FfD forum) which took place at the UN in New York from 22 to 25 May 2017. The event was entitled “Financing social protection floors throughout economic cycles”, and was organized jointly by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany), the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO), and Brot für die Welt and SocDevJustice on behalf of the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors.
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El proyecto de Carta Mundial de los Derechos a la Protección Social
El proyecto de Carta Mundial de los Derechos a la Protección Social publicado en este nuevo sitio web está destinado a la organización de campañas mundiales y el lanzamiento de una reflexión sobre qué tipo de protección social realmente queremos y necesitamos.
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