Care work, mostly carried out by women, unpaid or underpaid, remains informal and invisible. Despite its inherent value to societies, communities and families, unpaid care work is also excluded from economic calculations and ends up perpetuating inequalities...
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This comparative study will undertake an assessment of social protection systems -in light of their fiscal policies- in the Latin American and Caribbean region from a human rights perspective. The final objective of the regional study is to generate...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic consequences have exposed the fragilities of our economic and social systems that have traditionally neglected to invest sufficiently in fundamental public services such as health care and social protection,...
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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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