Ley 25.994
Legal depository - Country: Argentina / Year: 2004
Crea un sistema de jubilación anticipada. El monto del haber que percibirán los beneficiarios de la Jubilación Anticipada es el equivalente al cincuenta por ciento (50%) del correspondiente al beneficio de jubilación al que tendrá derecho al cumplir la edad requerida de acuerdo a la ley 24.241, no pudiendo...
Read MoreGeneral Orders (Anguilla)
Legal depository - Country: Anguilla / Year: 2004, 2010
General Orders, Chapter 7: Paragraph 7.24 states that “Women officers will be eligible for the grant of thirteen weeks maternity leave with full salary of which not fewer than four (if officer is physically on the job) and not more than six weeks may be taken before the...
Read MoreSocial security provisions in the Constitution of Belarus
Legal depository - Country: Belarus / Year: 2004
Relevant articles: Article 32 Marriage, the family, motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood shall be under the protection of the State. Article 41 … The State shall create conditions necessary for full employment of the population. Where a person is unemployed for reasons which are beyond one’s control, he shall be...
Read MorePolicy Paper on Social Protection
Resources - Author: Andrew Shepherd, Armando Barrientos, Rachel Marcus / Year: 2004
Social protection is an important dimension in the reduction of poverty and multidimensional deprivation. It is an approach towards thinking about the processes, policies and interventions which respond to the economic, social, political and security risks and constraints poor and vulnerable people face, and which will make them less...
Read MoreDevelopment of Japan’s Social Security System: An Evaluation and Implications for Developing Countries
Resources - Year: 2004
This handbook is an edited and augmented version of the report in Towards the Establishment of Social Safety Nets (SSN) in Developing Countries, compiled by a JICA study group that carried out in 2003 called Basic Research on Social Safety Nets. This handbook is extracted several sections from the...
Read MoreRights-based approaches to social protection
Resources - Author: Laure-Hélène Piron / Year: 2004
This paper provides background information and analysis on the relevance of rights-based approaches (RBAs) to development for the provision of social protection (SP) in developing countries, supported through international development assistance. This background paper does not purport to serve as programmatic guidance; it only identifies key arguments and some...
Read MoreBasic Law of Social Protection (Angola) (Law No. 7/04)
Voluntary guidelines to support the right to food
Results-based monitoring: Guidelines for technical cooperation projects and programmes
Resources - Author: GTZ / Year: 2004
These guidelines aim to describe the general concept of results-based monitoring in technical cooperation projects and programmes. Moreover, they identify and summarise the tasks to be performed on the basis of the results and explain the seven steps from project design to the use of monitoring results. Link to this...
Read MoreFinancing social protection
Resources - Author: Arthur van de Meerendonk, Fabio Bertranou, Krzysztof Hagemejer, Michael Cichon, Pierre Plamondon, Wolfgang Scholz / Year: 2004
Designing social protection systems that are effective and equitable as well as fiscally, financially and economically efficient has been a challenge for many countries. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the many financing options available while also provides a thorough analysis of their advantages and disadvantages and their...
Read MoreThe Arab Charter on Human Rights, 2004
Legal depository - Year: 2004
Article 36: The States parties shall ensure the right of every citizen to social security, including social insurance. Article 40: 2. The States parties shall provide social services free of charge for all persons with disabilities, shall provide the material support needed by those persons, their families or the...
Read MoreRights-based Approaches to Social Protection
Resources - Author: Laure-Hélène Piron / Year: 2004
Summary: This paper was commissioned as part of a project of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) to assist the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in developing an institutional policy and approach to social protection programming. Social protection is here defined as ‘an approach towards designing policies and interventions which...
Read MoreThe Arab Charter on Human Rights
Access to health care for children of illegal immigrants in France
Legal depository - Country: France / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2004
Summary: The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) claimed that France had violated the right to medical assistance (Article 13 of Revised European Social Charter) by ending the exemption given to illegal immigrants, with very low incomes, from expenses for medical and hospital treatment. The complainant alleged the...
Read MoreProvision of social security for permanent residents in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2004
Summary: The case was brought before the Constitutional Court of South Africa by Mozambican citizens living in South Africa as permanent residents. The applicants challenged the validity of certain provisions of the Social Assistance Act 59 of 1992 that denied social assistance to foreign nationals. They cited the infringement...
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