Expanding Social Security Coverage to Migrant Domestic Workers
Resources - Year: 2016
The briefing note explains the ILO strategy to expand social security coverage to migrant domestic workers, including the ILO standards relevant to migrant domestic workers. Despite the long list of ILO social security instruments adopted, the note goes on by describing the main challenges of standards setting for migrant...
Read MoreLabour inspections and other compliance mechanisms in the domestic work sector: Introductory guide
Resources - Year: 2016
This guide focuses on the challenges that countries face in implementing labour legislation covering domestic work. It is targeted in particular to government agencies, including labour inspectorates and other institutions that enforce labour regulations, as well as social partners and, more generally, domestic workers and their employers. The guide...
Read MoreDomestic work voice and representation through organizing
Resources - Author: Claire Hobden / Year: 2015
The policy brief outlines the obstacles for the formation of trade unions, strikes and collective bargaining in the sector of domestic work. It highlights that voice and representation for domestic workers is nevertheless important and advocates for new paradigms and new thinking to organize workers of and set collective...
Read MoreWorld Social Protection Report 2020-22
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2021
World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads – in pursuit of a better future This ILO flagship report provides a global overview of recent developments in social protection systems, including social protection floors, and covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on new data, it...
Read MoreBuilding Social Protection Systems: International Standards and Human Rights Instruments: Compendium
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
This compendium contains a selection of the most relevant international instruments that establish the human right to social security and provide guidance for comprehensive social security systems at national level. These include the standards and conclusions adopted by the International Labour Organization in the field of social security and...
Read MoreProject “Towards Inclusive Social Protection Systems To Advance The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities” (2019-20)
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Building on the process facilitated by ILO and International Disability Alliance (IDA) that led to the adoption of a joint statement on inclusive social protectionm and the current momentum on universal social protection, the UNPRPD funded project, implemented jointly by ILO and UNICEF in close cooperation with IDA seeks...
Read MoreUniversal Social Protection: Key concepts and international framework: Policy brief
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
This brief presents key aspects of universal social protection, and highlights how it is anchored in the current international legal and policy framework. It summarizes the progress that has been achieved so far and delimits the concept from other ideas and terms that are currently present in policy discussions....
Read MoreMeasuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3. Global estimates and strategies for developing countries
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
The paper provides regional and global estimates of the costs and financing gaps of target 1.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to social protection and analyses a number of options for filling those financing gaps in the developing countries using domestic and external resources. The paper considers...
Read MoreToolkit on ILO Social Security Standards
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
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 MoreILO Resource Package on “Extending Social Security to Workers in the Informal Economy”
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
The ILO policy resource package “Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience” serves as a reference for policy makers, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other stakeholders engaged in the development of social protection strategies, or the planning, design, implementation and monitoring of systems and...
Read MoreJoint statement: Towards inclusive social protection systems supporting the full and effective participation of persons with disabilities
Resources - Author: IDA, ILO, UNICEF / Year: 2019
This joint statement reflects our shared commitment to inclusive social protection systems for persons with disabilities. The statement emerged from meetings and discussions between international partners working on the issues of disability and social protection. These meetings also contributed to the first report of the United Nations (UN) Special...
Read MoreUniversal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development: General Survey concerning the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
The ILO’s General Survey 2019 , compiled by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR). The Survey (published under the title Universal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development) focuses on the ILO’s Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), which calls for...
Read MoreAusterity measures that contravene Conventions by reducing social protection and increasing poverty
Legal depository - Country: World / Body: ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / Year: 2009
In its general report of 2009, the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) observed that the global financial crisis was posing a real threat to the financial viability and sustainable development of social security systems and undermining the application of ILO social security standards....
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