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Social security and the global socio-economic floor
— towards a human rights-based approach | | Author(s) | Wouter van Ginneken |
| Journal title | Global Social Policy, vol 9, no 2, August 2009 |
| Pages | pp 228-245 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Social security [generally] ; Social economics ; Poverty ; Rights [elderly] ; International bodies ; International. |
| Annotation | This article shows that the commitment towards economic and social human rights (including the right to social security) will provide a strong force towards realising the global socio-economic floor. The right to social security has become realisable for a growing number of countries that have focused on the extension of social security coverage. This article shows that a global social security floor is affordable, including in low-income countries, with the initial support from the international community. This article explores how a global socio-economic floor could be better implemented through a human rights-based approach, and it reviews some of the recent initiatives undertaken by the United Nations' (UN) Human Rights Council. It suggests a number of steps to improve the effective implementation of its human rights-based approach. It concludes that such an approach can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and provide the framework for global policies for development and poverty eradication beyond 2015. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090914213 A |
| Classmark | TYA: W4: W6: IKR: VMA: 72 |
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