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Questions and Answers about the Right to Social Security

This question-and-answer document by Development Pathways and Human Rights Watch examines the human right to social security, and how universal social security can help protect people from economic shocks and other emerging threats, including climate-related hazards, while building just societies where all rights are realized. It also explains why policymakers should orient their policies toward establishing universal social security systems and avoid narrowly means-tested programs.

Social security is a human right, dating back to the 1948 Universal Declaration, and enshrined in a range of treaties and constitutions. It is closely linked with the right to an adequate standard of living and other economic, social and cultural rights.

Why Billionaires Hate Social Security

10 June 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

The real goal of billionaire-funded Social Security rhetoric is to prevent the public from drawing a connection between Social Security’s finances, the working-class retirement crisis, and the ludicrous amounts of wealth held by America’s billionaires.

Read this most interesting article

A new international Financing Mechanism for Social Protection?

16 May 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

What we think of it:

2023-GCSPF-WG-Statement-on-governing-principles-on-financing.pdf (socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org)

IMF Social Spending Floor: a Fig Leave for Austerity?

29 April 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

The International Monetary Fund has said that it protects spending on education, health and social protection from cuts in its loan programmes through social spending floors. These measures are a welcome step forward, but are they effective?

Analysis of all 17 IMF loan programmes (Extended Credit Facilities, or ECFs, and Extended Fund Facilities, or EFFs) for low- and middle-income countries during the first two years of the pandemic shows that these floors are deeply inadequate, inconsistent, opaque and failing. They are little more than a fig leaf for harmful austerity, which is driving inequality, poverty and suffering.

Read Oxfam‘s Paper

The Future of European Welfare States

22 April 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

How, against the same neoliberal background, one tries to make different social policies in Europe …

The future of European Welfare States | Meer

Radical right’s impact on the Welfare State

18 April 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

Radical-right parties are transforming the welfare state, recreating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’.

The populist-radical-right impact on the welfare state (socialeurope.eu)

ILO: Social Justice needed for overcoming global challenges

14 April 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

In statements delivered to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington, the ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, highlighted growing inequality worldwide and the need for social justice.

He called for coherent multilateral action to strengthen the social dimension of sustainable development and economic growth – as envisaged by the ILO’s proposed Global Coalition for Social Justice.

World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings: Social justice indispensable to overcome global challenges, ILO tells World Bank/IMF

World Health Day: The Struggle for Health goes on

9 April 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

In a jubilee year for the World Health Organization, we are still far away from achieving Health for All. For the founders of the WHO, health was “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being”, not simply the absence of physical illness. Their vision did not translate into practice, and people are still denied this fundamental human right, simply because they live in a particular region or because they do not have money to pay for care.

Activists around the world have seized the opportunity brought by this World Health Day to mobilize and point to alternative directions to take. Some of these included looking back at existing concepts, like Comprehensive Primary Health Care, which have been cast aside under neoliberal capitalism.

The struggle for health goes on: World Health Day special (peoples-health-dispatch.ghost.io)

ITUC calls for financing of social protection

24 March 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

There is an urgent need to coordinate an international response to the major financing gaps affecting social protection systems around the world.

ILO Development Partners Meeting: ITUC calls for stronger international financing of social protection – International Trade Union Confederation (ituc-csi.org)

Social Security and the Informal Sector: look at Africa

15 February 2023 / Francine / 0 Comments

Ninety percent of global Small and Micro Enterprise (SMEs) business and more than fifty percent of all employment happens in the informal economy.

Often dismissed by the establishment due to its fluid and amorphous nature, it is clear that as South Africa and the continent battles high unemployment, especially youth unemployment, there is a huge opportunity for state and private sector support and investment into this sector.

Harnessing the energy that drives this thriving sector is a far more appropriate response than whipping it with punitive law enforcement. One of the best ways to begin would be to support the design of appropriate social security systems to enable enterprise owners and workers in the informal economy to build up financial security for the futures of themselves, their businesses and their families. Building social security builds Decent Work and better societies worldwide.

Read the article by Isobel Frye

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