Toolkit on ILO Social Security Standards
The Toolkit on ILO Social Security Standards was developed with the aim of raising awareness about ILO social security standards and promoting their ratification as well as increasing their impact and application in national contexts. The toolkit provides very practical and useful insights as to the ratification procedure, model...
Read MoreIntroduction to the right to social security
Social security is a fundamental human right recognized by most international human rights instruments, reinforced by regional agreements and increasingly reflected in domestic legislation. Encouragingly, requirements to respect, protect and fulfil this right in the design, implementation and evaluation of social protection policies and programmes are affirmed and broadly...
Read MoreSocial security standards of the International Labour Organization
The ILO has developed a substantial body of international legal standards to give effect to the right to social security. Subsequently, over 50 conventions and recommendations have been adopted jointly by governments, employers and workers within the ILO. These social security standards have often been used by the Committee...
Read MoreKey aspects of the right to social security
The CESCR, which monitors the implementation of ICESCR, has developed the content of the right to social security beyond the cross-cutting concerns for all economic, social and cultural rights in its General Comment 19. Specifically, it provides a definition of the right to social security, describes the obligations resting...
Read MoreSocial security as an economic, social and cultural right
The right to social security is most explicitly articulated in Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Economic, social and cultural rights are particularly complex, and are subject to a series of legal provisions that inform their implementation. States have an underlying obligation to...
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If you would like to know more about the legal approach to social protection… … then this section is for you. It will explain how international law supports the right to social security; and why economic, cultural and social rights and labour law are necessary for understanding a human...
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