Reflecting on the Human Right to Social Security
Resources - Author: Christina Behrendt, Katja Hujo, Roddy McKinnon / Year: 2017
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 asserts that social security is an inalienable human right. Realizing this human right is often considered, simply, as a matter of political will and of administrative aptitude. In these terms, the progressive realization of the human right to social...
Read MoreInternational Social Security Review Special Issue: Special Issue: The human right to social security
Resources - Author: Catalina Devandas, Christina Behrendt, Francie Lund, Gabriele Köhler, Katja Hujo, Laura Alfers, Magdalena Sepúlveda, Rachel Moussié, Roddy McKinnon, Valeria Esquivel / Year: 2017
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 asserts that social security is an inalienable human right. Realizing this human right is often considered, simply, as a matter of political will and of administrative aptitude. In these terms, the progressive realization of the human right to social...
Read MorePolicy Innovations for Transformative Change: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Resources - Author: Dunja Krause, Ilcheong Yi, Katja Hujo, Pascal van Griethuysen, Peter Utting, Valeria Esquivel / Year: 2016
World leaders have committed to transform our world and to leave no one behind in the quest for sustainable development. What needs to happen now to enable the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to deliver on its transformative promise? Which policies and practices will lead to social, economic and...
Read MoreThe Sustainable Development Agenda: From Inspiration to Action
Resources - Author: Gabriele Köhler, Katja Hujo / Year: 2015
The SDGs stand a chance of hitting the ground running. Even before they are put before the UN General Assembly, politicians, policy makers, civil society, business and the media have been reacting positively to the new sustainable development agenda. The agenda is indeed to be welcomed. It responds to...
Read MoreThe Political Economy of Pension Re-Reform in Chile and Argentina: Toward More Inclusive Protection
Resources - Author: Katja Hujo, Mariana Rulli / Year: 2014
This paper argues that reforms implemented in 2008, the re-nationalization of the private pension funds in Argentina and the introduction of a social pension in Chile have moved both countries toward greater social inclusion in old-age protection. In the case of Chile this was achieved in 2008 after extensive...
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