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ILO activities in the post-war world (Part 1: 1946-1959)
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Minimum standards for social security

The Philadelphia Declaration (1944) sets out ILO’s role with regard to social protection, an area in which the Organization has been active since its inception in 1919, adopting several conventions and recommendations. It was in 1952, however, when it adopted the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, which entered into force in 1955, that it took decisive action. The convention allows derogations for countries “whose economy and medical facilities are insufficiently developed”, but it nevertheless marked a fundamental shift in international social security law in that it introduced the new concept of a general level of social security the Member States should attain.

As Hector G. Bartolomei de la Cruz and Alain Euzéby recall (L'OIT, Que sais-je?, PUF, Paris 1997, pp. 87-90), the 1952 Convention, which the Council of Europe took over almost word for word in its European Code of Social Security, is currently considered the standard of reference in this field.
  1. 1946-1959:
    ILO activities in the post-war world (Part 1: 1946-1959)
    1. 1946
    2. 1947
    3. 1948
    4. 1949
    5. 1950
    6. 1951
    7. 1952
    8. 1953
    9. 1955
    10. 1957
    11. 1958
  2. 1919-1939
  3. 1940-1945
  4. 1960-1988
  5. 1989-1998
  6. 1999-


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