Legal Depository

This a collection of resources related to the right to social protection. The instruments provided here provide a legal framework for understanding, implementing, and monitoring social security.

The resources provided here fall into two primary categories:

Legal
Instruments
Legal
Cases
  1. Legal instruments, which consist of:

United Nations legal instruments, which include

Regional legal instruments, which include

Domestic legislation, which includes

  • Constitutional provisions and
  • other domestic legislation.
  1. Legal cases, which consist of a collection of jurisprudence which is useful for practitioners and policy makers to see how the terms of the law have been applied in specific cases at international, regional and national level. These decisions can be useful advocacy tools by setting precedents and showing how human rights-based can become suitable for legal action.

We invite you to contact the platform’s focal point if you have any additional suggestions for inclusion.

Social Protection and Human Rights