Everyone needs social protection along their life! More than half of the world population has no access to social protection. These people are left to their own devices when they are ill, unemployed, pregnant or old. However, social protection is not a privilege, but a human right. It is also the best insurance against inequalities, poverty and exclusion.To guarantee this right to social protection for all, close to 100 social movements mobilize across 24 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. They join their forces in the global network INSP!R, the International Network for Social Protection Rights.Current social protection policies leave too many people unprotected and need to be transformed, to include all working women and men in both the formal and informal economy, those in precarious employment and those unable to perform paid work.INSP!R claims its role as a key actor for structural social changes.

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