Handbook on social health protection for refugees: Approaches, lessons learned and practical tools to assess coverage options
Resources - Year: 2020
The purpose of this handbook is to guide UNHCR public health and programme staff and ILO staff working on social protection at country level on the considerations and practical steps required to assess options for the inclusion of refugees in national social health protection...
Read MoreIndia, The Code on Social Security (2020)
Legal depository - Country: India / Year: 2020
The amendment of September 2020 reforms and consolidates India’s social security laws with the goals to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors and for matters connected therewith or incidental...
Read MoreCulture shock: COVID-19 and the cultural and creative sectors
Resources - Author: English / Year: 2020
The OECD Policy Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lays out how the cultural and creative sector is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies factors that make the effects long-lasting. It describes the fragility of the cultural and creative sector and the inadequacy of social protection schemes to offset...
Read MoreCOVID-19 Recovering Rights: Topic Seven | Income Support to Protect Rights
Resources - Year: 2020
Main Takeaways Urgent measures are necessary to provide sufficient income to millions of people who cannot work due to pandemicrelated restrictions, so that they can still meet their basic needs. Many of these workers lack social and labor protections. Basic income schemes vary in type, design and implementation. Those...
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