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 MoreFAO’s Role in Social Protection: Innovation to Achieve Zero Hunger, Reduce Poverty and Build Resilient Communities
The event gathered representatives of FAO partners in social protection to discuss important achievements made thus far – and the way forward – to continue to increase rural prosperity, food security and resilience through the scale-up of social protection systems. Link to...
Read MoreEliminating and Preventing Forced Labour: Checkpoints app
This mobile app allows business managers and auditors to create interactive checklists that will help them ensure a forced labour-free operation. There are 38 checkpoints in total – each one provides best-practice recommendations for taking action. A PDF version is also...
Read MoreExtending Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific
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Making Public Works Inclusive
The video provides insight into the pilot project “Making Public Works Inclusive” implemented in 2016 in Dedza District in Malawi´s Central Region. The video explains the approach the pilot has taken on including persons with disabilities in Malawi´s national Public Works Programme. Central and district level stakeholders as well...
Read MoreLessons for the Universalization of Health Care in Emerging Economies
This webinar explores the opportunities and challenges facing developing countries as they seek to expand and universalize their health care systems. Universal health care was once a central pillar of the welfare state, but the rise of neoliberalism in international policy discourse and practice eroded the support for universal...
Read MoreAnchoring Social Protection in Law in China
Anchoring Social Protection in Law in Myanmar
Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Realizing Health and Human Rights
How can people’s sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHRs) around the world be better protected and promoted? Watch panellists at this event present perspectives on: Challenges and good practices in ensuring full access to SRHRs Environmental dimensions of family planning The linkages between a human rights-based social protection framework...
Read MoreBeing Someone: basic social protection in Mozambique
Informality and Income Insecurity: Is Basic Income a Universal Solution?
Is a universal (or unconditional) basic income (UBI) an effective way for states to meet their social protection commitments in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? Is it a utopian vision within reach of only the richest countries, or as several pilot schemes have shown, a realistic option for...
Read MoreBuilding Livelihoods and Promoting Rights? The Graduation Approach to Social Protection
What is “graduation” in the context of sustainable development? Not just a ceremony to celebrate finishing school, graduation is when rights-holders leave a social protection programme after reaching certain pre-determined indicators. This UNRISD Seminar examined whether graduation, in the context of social protection schemes, is a viable way to...
Read MoreCivil Society and Women’s Right to Social Protection
How do conflict, disaster and employment all tie into social protection for women? In this video, Priti Darooka from the Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights discusses the need for intersectional analysis when talking about universal, rights-based social...
Read MoreRealizing the Right to Social Protection: The role of ILO social security standards
How have the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) social security standards contributed to creating rights-based social protection systems? How does human rights and social protection law turn into substantive, country-level implementation? The ILO’s Christina Behrendt explains how the organization’s collaborative approach to reducing inequality and preventing poverty and helping states...
Read MoreSocial Protection for Persons with Disabilities
Persons with disabilities have faced exclusionpreventing them from fully enjoying their right to social protection under the previous welfarist model. In this video, Facundo Chavez Penillas from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) discusses states’ obligation to ensure that social protection systems are fully inclusive...
Read MoreSocial Protection for LGBT People: Challenges and good practices
How does social protection address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people? How can a rights-based approach be used to ensure that their needs are fully taken into account? In this video, Andrés Scagliola from the Social Development Department of the City of Montevideo discusses challenges and...
Read MoreSocial Protection and Care in the Sustainable Development Goals
Care and social protection are both explicitly mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the Goals fall short of addressing how gendered power relations can be an impediment to women being able to fully enjoy their human rights. Valeria Esquivel from UNRISD discusses how social protection can contribute...
Read MoreSocial Protection for Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction Social Protection for Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction
How can human rights be used to reduce rural poverty? How can subsistence farmers and workers, indigenous groups and people in rural areas be guaranteed the right to food security? In this video, Maya Takagi from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) discusses the organization’s approach to ensuring that...
Read MoreThe Economic, Cultural and Social Dimensions of Social Protection
How do economic, cultural and social rights fit in with social protection? How can duty bearers make sure that these rights are guaranteed for all, especially those excluded from the labour market? In this video, Christian Courtis from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) discusses...
Read MoreOvercoming Exclusion, Promoting Rights: Challenges and Opportunities in Social Protection
In this video, Katja Hujo (UNRISD) and Isabel Ortiz (International Labour Organization) introduce Overcoming Exclusion and Promoting Rights: Challenges and Opportunities in Social Protection, an official side event of the 30th Human Rights Council. In this video series, experts from international organizations, governments and civil society discuss ways to...
Read MoreSocial Protection and Human Rights: About the Platform
Regional Perspective: Linking Social Protection and Human Rights
What responsibilities exist at the regional level to provide rights-based social protection? The Organization of American States’ Alexandra Barrantes talks about the importance of shifting the focus to people as rights-holders rather than beneficiaries; the role of legal frameworks (such as the San Salvador Protocol) in creating comprehensive social...
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