The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development starts today. The theme for 2016 is Ensuring that No One Gets Left Behind. The HLPF is the United Nation’s platform to review the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and will provide leadership, guidance and recommendations...

UN Women has issued a call for papers on how human mobility and the distancing of family members across places and borders shape gender and generational dynamics within families, for its flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women (Progress). The deadline for receiving proposals is 8 August, 5 p.m....

As the world moves forward towards implementing and localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is critical to remember that gender equality is an essential factor in the ability of a country to attain sustainable development and that women’s empowerment is a core element in attaining gender equality. Over...

UNRISD is holding an event on the graduation approach to social protection as part of its Seminar Series on Monday, 27 June. The event, Building Livelihoods & Promoting Rights? The Graduation Approach to Social Protection, will bring together experts to discuss: whether or not graduation is compatible with a...

ECLAC and GIZ will hold a two-day technical workshop on 20 and 21 June. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that Latin American and Caribbean countries need stronger legal and regulatory frameworks to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and sustainability of rights-based social protection systems. The event,...

On 22 June, ECLAC and the Chilean Ministry of Social Development will hold Optimizando la respuesta en emergencias desde lo social, a full-day seminar on social protection in emergency situations. The event will consist of two expert panels, as well as a discussion session with government representatives from Chile...

The Institute of Development Studies’ Centre for Social Protection (CSP) is holding a short course from 27 – 30 June. The course, entitled Social Protection: policies, programmes and evidence is designed to provide development researchers, policy makers and practitioners with a broad knowledge of approaches to social protection and...

The 32nd Session of the Human Rights Council starts on 13 June in Geneva, Switzerland. The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations...

The 105th Session of the International Labour Conference takes place from 30 May to 10 June 2016. The Conference, held annually in Geneva, is often called an international parliament of labour. Each of the 187 member States of the ILO is represented by a delegation consisting of two government...

On 25 May, UNAIDS, UNRISD and the ILO will host Fast-Tracking Social Protection to End AIDS: A Panel Discussion from 15.30-17.00 in the Palais des Nations, Geneva. UNAIDS has developed Fast-Track targets, which if met by 2020, will set the world on course to ending the AIDS epidemic by...

On date, ILO released World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2016. The report includes a forecast of global unemployment levels in both the Global Noth and the Global South. Visit ILO’s report page to learn more about global employment trends. Download the report.     Photo credit: “Being...

UNICEF Innocenti and the Know Violence in Childhood Initiative are holding an expert round table in Florence, Italy on how social protection can mitigate the risk of violence against children on 12 and 13 May. Twenty-five experts from around the world will discuss the link between social protection and...

On 12 May, socialprotection.org is hosting a webinar which will discuss two new papers: Oxford Policy Management’s (OPM) Conceptualizing Shock-Responsive Social Protection and Cash Learning Partnership’s (CaLP) Working with Cash-Based Safety Nets in Humanitarian Contexts: Guidance note for humanitarian practitioners. Nupur Kukrety and Paula Gil Baizan from CaLP and...

On 13 May, UNRISD will host Informality and Income Security: Is a Basic Income the Universal Answer? as part of its Seminar Series. On 5 June, Switzerland will hold the world’s first referendum on a universal basic income (UBI). Is a UBI a way for governments to fulfil their...

On 3 May at 3PM (GMT +1), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UNDP’s International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) will host a webinar on Gender and Social Protection: Current Issues and Policy Trends. Nicola Jones from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Agnes Ouisumbing from  the The...

Don’t forget that today at 2PM (GMT+1), UNICEF is hosting a chat where you can ask the experts your burning questions about social protection for children! Follow along at #SocProChat. Download the event flyer.   Photo credit:  Bulgaria CO 2013 (via...

On 20 April, UNICEF is releasing Social Protection for Child Rights and Well-Being in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, the latest issue of Social Monitor. The report finds that children are more likely than adults to live in extreme poverty. In addition, children with disabilities,...

On 22 April, UNRISD is hosting Food Trade, Food Security and the SDGs: Aligning Reality with the Vision as part of its Seminar Series. The event will bring together experts to discuss the links between food security, trade, human rights and social development. Susan Matthews from OHCHR will discuss...

From 3-5 April, ESCAP is hosting the 2016 Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development in Bangkok, Thailand. The forum will tackle several social issues which are mentioned in the 2030 Agenda, paying special attention to limited access to social protection, economic and gender inequality, and demographic trends including population ageing...

With the 60th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) in full swing, UN Women has released several discussion papers on the issues being addressed. Towards Gender Equality through Sanitation Access discusses the need for adequate design, planning and financing for adequate sanitation, a crucial issue protecting women’s human...

UNAIDS and the Global Health Workforce Alliance are launching an Agenda for Zero Discrimination in Health Care, an action plan to help achieve universal health care services and where health care workers are empowered to provide discrimination-free services. The Agenda places priority on three critical areas: increasing political commitment...

Social Protection for Domestic Workers, a new ILO study in the Social Protection Policy Paper series, finds that 60 million out of the 67 million domestic workers in the world (roughly 90 per cent) do not have access to social protection. Domestic workers generally are considered a “hard-to-reach” demographic...

On 3 and 4 March, UNAIDS will host its annual Social Protection, Care and Support Working Group meeting. The first day will focus on presenting new evidence, evaluating the achievements of 2015 and identifying research gaps. The second day will focus on ways forward and planning on social protection,...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad, will present his annual report during the 31st Session of the Human Rights Council. The High Commissioner’s report (A/HRC/31/3) provides an overview of the work undertaken by the office in 2015, and includes a reference to the Social...

On 10 March, Simone Cecchini, Social Affairs Officer at ECLAC and Sergei Soares, Senior Researcher at Institute for Applied Economic Research (Brazil), will participate in Towards Universal Social Protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools, a socialprotection.org webinar. The webinar will examine the recently published ECLAC book by the...