Extending social protection to the cultural and creative sector
Resources - Year: 2021
This policy brief outlines the challenges in extending social protection to the cultural and creative sector (CCS), which were exposed by the COVID-19 crisis. These include, inter alia, legal and de facto exclusion due to the specificities of CCS work such as fluctuating employment status, irregular incomes, intermittent nature...
Read MoreGrowth and Inequality in Pakistan (Volume I)
Resources - Author: Hafiz Pasha / Year: 2018
The theme of the book is Growth and Inequality. These are the two fundamental problems with the economy of the Pakistan. The rate of economic growth has barely touched 5 percent over the last decade. Simultaneously, the economic and social structure have perpetuated high income, wealth and regional disparities....
Read MoreBuilding Trade Union Power with Gender Equality: The Case of the Unified Workers’ Central of Brazil
Resources - Author: Didice Godhino Delgado / Year: 2017
The Unified Workers’ Central (Central Única dos Trabalhadores, CUT) of Brazil, one of the world’s largest trade union federations, the most important in Latin America, and the country’s most representative, in 2015 implemented gender parity in its decision making bodies at national and state level. With this step it...
Read MoreInnovations in Care: new concepts, new actors, new policies
Resources - Author: Andrea Kaufmann, Valeria Esquivel / Year: 2017
The Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality marks an unprecedented advance in the care agenda in terms of the visibility of care as a central dimension of sustainable development. The new international commitment for recognizing, redistributing and reducing unpaid care and domestic work through care policies needs to...
Read MoreCivil Society Guide for National Social Protection Floors (SPFs)
Social Protection Floor Index: Monitoring national social protection policy implementation
Resources - Author: Annalena Oppel, Michael Cichon, Mira Bierbaum, Sander Tromp / Year: 2016
At the 101st International Labour Conference in 2012, 184 members unanimously adopted the Social Protection Floors (SPFs) Recommendation No. 202, which provides guidance to members for establishing and maintaining SPFs as a core element of their national social security systems, guaranteeing access to essential health care and a basic...
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