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Unpacking the ILO’s Social Protection Floor Recommendation (2012) from a Women’s Rights Perspective

Expert commentaries - Date: 15 September 2014 / Author: Lucie Lamarche

ILO and the right to social security: implicit assumptions about women The twentieth century witnessed the development of national social security and social protection mechanisms aimed at providing economic, social and public answers to address social risks. Social security schemes were based on the assumption that either women were...

Improving Representation in the Design and Implementation of Social Protection Programmes through Women’s Organizations

Expert commentaries - Date: 25 April 2014 / Author: Markus Kaltenborn

The role of women’s organizations Due to the high relevance of women’s participation for the success of social protection programmes it is, in my view, necessary to give at least the most important women’s organizations of a country a statutory right to take part in the respective processes of...