In 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 crisis hit Asia and the Pacific hard, with catastrophic impacts on health, economies and societies. It reversed much of the progress on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and worsened gender equalities in health,...
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In 2020-2021, the COVID-19 crisis had catastrophic impacts on Asia and the Pacific, affecting economies and societies. It reversed much of the progress made towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), worsening gender equalities in health, education and...
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This report identifies eight challenges that must be addressed in order to bring social protection in line with human rights standards. In total, over 1,400 social protection measures have been adopted by 208 jurisdictions to cushion the shock. While a...
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To help countries tackle the devastating social and economic dimensions of the pandemic, with a focus on at-risk groups, the UN issued the UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19 (SERF) in April 2020. The SERF sets out the strategy...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to overwhelm public health care systems, and is having devastating impacts across the world on all spheres of life – the economy, social security, education and food production. Tens of thousands of lives have already been...
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In its resolution 25/11, the Human Rights Council requested the Secretary-General to submit an annual report with a special focus on the importance of social protection floors for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights (para. 16). The report...
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