El Salvador: Reduciendo la desigualdad a través de la protección social universal
Organization(s): ILO
Regions: Americas
Country: El Salvador
Year: 2015
Language: Spanish
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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.
Related Key Issues
Social protection programmes must be available to all individuals without discrimination of any kind. Universal social protection systems – those which provide benefits to all residents without conditions – are the best way for States to meet their human rights obligations to ensure that there is no discrimination in the selection of beneficiaries. Further reading: […]
Related Principles
States parties to major human rights instruments related to economic, social and cultural rights such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) have an immediate minimum core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of all economic, social and cultural rights such as the right […]
Meaningful and effective participation of rights holders must be a key component of any social protection system. This is what builds trust and public support behind schemes and ensures that there is a sense of ownership. The participation of right holders is important during the social protection policy making processes but also as regards the […]