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26JunJune 26, 2026

The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth – Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth (Addendum to report A/HRC/62/42) provides advice to States on the eradication of extreme poverty in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The Roadmap aims to assist States in implementing the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, adopted by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/11 and which the General Assembly welcomed in its resolution 67/164 of 20 December 2012. The Roadmap...

June 26, 2026

Books, Books, Reports, System Sustainability2026, Adequacy, Income, Social Protection

26JunJune 26, 2026

Rethinking progress: UN expert calls to fight poverty beyond growth and expand social protection

There must be a fundamental shift in global anti-poverty strategies, moving beyond the notion that economic “growth” is the only path to eradicating poverty, the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Elena Díaz Galán said today, presenting the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth to the Human Rights Council. “What matters to people living in poverty is not abstract economic expansion, but real improvements in living conditions. Poverty is multidimensional and lived; it cannot be reduced to income, or solved...

June 26, 2026

NewsSocial Protection

19JunJune 19, 2026

Côte d’Ivoire Expands Social Protection Coverage for Informal Workers

Côte d’Ivoire has expanded access to health insurance, pensions and social benefits for informal workers, a group that accounts for more than 92% of total employment. The government estimates that 1.6 million informal workers are now eligible for retirement pensions through the Social Scheme for Independent Workers (RSTI). Authorities enrolled more than 23 million people in the Universal Health Coverage (CMU) system by December 2025, but participation and benefit utilization rates remain low. The Ivorian government has taken another...

June 19, 2026

NewsCote D'Ivoire, Social Protection

01JunJune 1, 2026

Thailand pilots strategic compliance planning to strengthen protection for domestic workers

Labour inspection in private homes presents unique challenges. Unlike a factory or a construction site, domestic workers are dispersed across thousands of households, worker locations may not be readily available, and access may be restricted in private residences. For the roughly 125,000 registered migrant domestic workers in Thailand, largely women from Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar, and many more in irregular status — these barriers can leave them vulnerable and difficult to reach through conventional labour inspection methods. That...

June 1, 2026

NewsSocial Protection, Social Security, Thailand

08MayMay 8, 2026

The Impact of Corporate Employment: Minimum Wage or Social Insurance Policy? — Evidence from China

By Junpeng di, Wanhe li & Mingyuan zhang China's minimum wage standards and enforcement have been on the rise, and the academic community generally believes that minimum wage increases enterprise labor costs and has an important impact on employment. However, less attention has been paid to social insurance, which is also a cost for Chinese companies. This paper considers both minimum wage and social insurance policy at the same time, and firstly analyzes the influence mechanism of the two on...

May 8, 2026

Articles, Labor Market2025, Income, Labor Market, Public Policy, Social Protection

10AprApril 10, 2026

Communicating for action: Rewriting the social security engagement

By ISSA Social security institutions are shifting from traditional outreach into establishing leveraging communication tools and approaches that drives action from individuals. Through multi-pronged strategies they are engaging with individuals and creating meaningful connections that empower people to understand their rights, navigate services confidently, build trust and actively engage with social protection systems. Empowering individuals to know about and claim social security benefits and services is as much a delivery challenge as it is a communication one. People may have limited...

April 10, 2026

Articles, Pension design2026, Engagement, Social Protection, Social Security

23JanJanuary 23, 2026

Social Protection for Informal Workers

By Abhijeet U Pai The modern working relationships require the law to recognise non-standard forms of employment and address the lack of traditional employment benefits like social protection for them. Informal employment is seen as a job-based (based on nature of job rather than status of the enterprise) concept that cuts across different sectors of economic activity and thus is defined as ‘informal economy’ rather than ‘informal sector’, in terms of employment relationship and protections associated with the job of the...

January 23, 2026

Articles, System Characterization2025, Coverage, India, Informal workers, Social Protection

05DecDecember 5, 2025

Nigeria to extend social protections to 60 million in the informal sector

The minister made this disclosure in Abuja during a two-day national dialogue on expanding social protection to informal workers. He said the Federal Government is taking concrete steps to address decades of exclusion affecting millions of Nigerians who earn a living in markets, farms, workshops, roadside enterprises and other informal settings. “Today, we write a new chapter in our collective journey to give dignity, inclusion, and protection to the over 60 million Nigerians who make up our informal economy,” the minister...

December 5, 2025

NewsInformal Sector, Nigeria, Social Protection

28NovNovember 28, 2025

Financial sustainability for the expansion of non-contributory pension systems and the eradication of old-age poverty

By Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Ernesto Espíndola & Juan Ignacio Vila Income protection is a substantive factor and a priority of social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, in particular at either end of the life cycle (i.e. childhood and old age). This is due to the greater vulnerability and lower earning capacity of these population segments compared with other age groups, among other factors (Santos Garcia, Farías and Robles, 2023). In these circumstances, pension systems, in particular...

November 28, 2025

Articles, System Sustainability2024, Funding, Latin America, Pension Reform, Social Pensions, Social Protection

22SepSeptember 22, 2025

Germany proposes a solution to the pension crisis: a monthly ‘salary’ for children aged 6 and over

“The welfare state we have today is no longer financially sustainable,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated at a CDU event at the end of August. His remarks follow the government’s agreement to push through a reform of the pension system, aimed at containing the deficit. To address this, Merz proposed incentivizing private savings from an early age as a potential solution. The “Early Start Pension” initiative suggests that children aged six to 18 attending school would receive €10 per month from the German government, which would...

September 22, 2025

NewsGermany, Pension Reform, Social Protection

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