The COVID-19 pandemic has hit women particularly hard, exacerbating existing gender gaps. Not only are women disproportionally represented in the worst affected industries such as retail, food services and hospitality, but many were...
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit women particularly hard, exacerbating existing gender gaps. Not only are women disproportionally represented in the worst affected industries such as retail, food services and hospitality, but many were...
During 1994-1998, the state government of Haryana ran a conditional cash transfer programme to address the issue of child marriage: at the time of a daughter’s birth, parents from marginalised sections of society were promised a...
The ILO-led UN Joint Programme “Extending Social Protection to Herders with Enhanced Shock Responsiveness” seeks to extend social protection to herders, focusing on reducing herders’ vulnerabilities to poverty and extreme climate...
The world’s largest anti-poverty programme may also help India achieve its target of creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5-3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, through additional forest and tree cover, by 2030, in line...
The economic impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Asia highlights the importance of entrenching longer-term sustainability and economic resilience into the recovery process. The macroeconomic effects of the...
Migrants constitute an important part of our labour markets. What can we do to reduce the barriers that prevent them from accessing their rights?
Immigrants and their children represent one out of five ...
A MalaysianTrades Union Congress (MTUC) leader urged the Government to establish an Old Age Social Protection Scheme to help retirees weather out their twilight years comfortably. “We would propose that a nominal percentage from...
While great strides in poverty reduction have taken place in Colombia in the last decade, the number of people living below the poverty line increased by 6.8 percentage points since the start of the pandemic, reversing a decade of...
Members of the Ugandan Parliament sitting on the Committees of Budget and Gender, Labour and Social Development want government to increase social protection expenditure to at least 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Our funding to...
We are in unprecedented times. Coronavirus, market upheaval, economic slowdown – all igniting the feeling of insecurity. All humans strive to have at least an adequate standard of living and Governments need to support their...
In September 2020, 32 herders, herder cooperative representatives, lifelong education trainers, social insurance officers, and trade union delegates from five soums (lower administration unit of the province) in Zavkhan province...
Sri Lanka needs to work on its pre-retirement social-security systems such as unemployment benefits and wage support as COVID-19 pandemic slashed 150,000 jobs in the country affecting mostly youth and middle-skilled workers, a...
