The rights-based approach to social protection in Latin America: From rhetoric to practice
Resources - Year: 2014
Summary This paper aims to contribute to developing the normative framework for rights-based social protection systems and discusses lessons learned in some emblematic programmes implemented in Latin America which have sought to advance a rights approach. The paper emphasizes the added value of the rights-based approach and describes the...
Read MoreEl Salvador: Reduciendo la desigualdad a través de la protección social universal
Resources - Year: 2015
This Universal Social Protection Brief presents the Salvador’s experience on reducing the inequality across the universal social protection. It includes the main lessons learned, information on the universal social protection system, the major breakthrough achievements, the impacts on people’s lives and the way forward. Link to this...
Read MoreReport on a human rights approach to the global and financial crisis (A/64/279). submitted by the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2009
This report addresses the impact of the current global financial crisis on people living in extreme poverty and the enjoyment of their human rights. It stresses that the crisis offers an opportunity to move beyond the restructuring of the global financial and monetary systems and to place people at the...
Read MoreReport of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on her Mission to Paraguay (A /HRC/20/25/Add. 2)
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2012
The report focuses on a number of flagship programmes, including the Tekoporã conditional cash transfer programme, the Abrazo (“hug”) Programme and the Family Health Units Programme. The report recognizes that major strides have been made in the area of rights-based public policy planning. It also reviews the achievements of the social protection...
Read MoreHuman rights-based approach to recovery from the global economic and financial crises (A/HRC/17/34)
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2011
In the present report, the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty sets out the parameters of a human rights-based approach to recovery from the global economic and financial crises, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable and marginalized groups. She urges States to see...
Read MoreGeneral Comment No. 19 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The right to social security (Art. 9)
Resources - Year: 2008
Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Covenant) provides that, “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to social security, including social insurance.” The right to social security is of central importance in guaranteeing human dignity for all...
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