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2020
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Adequate sickness benefits to all
14 May 2020
The COVID-19 health crisis revealed important gaps in terms of entitlements to protection in case of sickness. Sickness benefits are an important part of social health protection to ensure access to health care and income security.
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COVID-19: Social protection responses to the crisis
24 April 2020
The importance of ensuring universal access to social protection systems that meet people’s needs. Social protection systems are an indispensable part of a coordinated policy response to the unfolding crisis, ensuring that people can effectively access health care while supporting job and income security for those most affected. Countries are taking measures to provide comprehensive and adequate benefits to meet people’s needs.
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Five ways to include persons with disabilities in COVID-19 responses
22 April 2020
The inequalities exacerbating COVID-19’s impact on persons with disabilities are not new. The risk in the response to the current crisis is that persons with disabilities will be left behind once again. The good news is that we already know what works.
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The need to scale up investment in health workforces
03 April 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis puts pressure on health services across the globe, new data from the ILO’s Department of Statistics highlights the already existing shortages of health workers.
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The impact of COVID-19 on inequalities in the world of work
30 March 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating already existing inequalities – from catching the virus, to staying alive, to coping with its dramatic economic consequences. Policy responses must ensure that support reaches the workers and enterprises who need it most.
2019
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Pensions will ensure income security for older person – Universal social protection to achieve the SDGs
18 August 2019
In the past decades, Viet Nam made significant progress in extending social protection, and has now committed to universal social protection by the Master Plan on Social Insurance reform and the Master Plan on Social Assistance reform. The ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral programme supported a national dialogue led by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to implement the social insurance reforms.
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Unemployment insurance – Universal social protection to achieve the SDGs
18 August 2019
In the past decades, Viet Nam made significant progress in extending social protection, and has now committed to universal social protection by the Master Plan on Social Insurance reform and the Master Plan on Social Assistance reform. The ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral programme supported a national dialogue led by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to implement the social insurance reforms.
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Social insurance maternity benefits – Universal social protection to achieve the SDGs
18 August 2019
In the past decades, Viet Nam made significant progress in extending social protection, and has now committed to universal social protection by the Master Plan on Social Insurance reform and the Master Plan on Social Assistance reform. The ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral programme supported a national dialogue led by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to implement the social insurance reforms.
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Social insurance for informal employment – Universal social protection to achieve the SDGs
18 August 2019
In the past decades, Viet Nam made significant progress in extending social protection, and has now committed to universal social protection by the Master Plan on Social Insurance reform and the Master Plan on Social Assistance reform. The ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral programme supported a national dialogue led by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to implement the social insurance reforms.
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Why social insurance is important to me – Universal social protection to achieve the SDGs
18 August 2019
In the past decades, Viet Nam made significant progress in extending social protection, and has now committed to universal social protection by the Master Plan on Social Insurance reform and the Master Plan on Social Assistance reform. The ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral programme supported a national dialogue led by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to implement the social insurance reforms.
2017
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Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Labour: the new social security law will help support the private sector and strengthen workers’ rights
21 December 2017
On the sidelines of a workshop for high-level Iraqi officials organized by the ILO to support the Government of Iraq in drafting its new social security law, we speak to Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Abdel Karim Al-Janabi on the importance of the new law which, once adopted, will be the first to cover all public and private sector workers in Iraq.
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B-roll: 4 billion people worldwide are without social protection
29 November 2017
According to new data presented in the World Social Protection Report 2017/19: Universal social protection to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals , only 45 per cent of the global population is effectively covered by at least one social benefit, while the remaining 55 per cent– 4 billion people – are left unprotected.
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Social protection is a human right but how many benefit?
29 November 2017
The ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2017-19 provides recent data on social protection systems around the world, and monitors progress towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It shows that more efforts are needed to extend coverage in many countries, but achieving universal social protection is possible.
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Innovate to extend social protection to workers in the informal economy
08 June 2017
We need to look at how we can innovate and find solutions to empower informal economy workers to be part of the solution to have access to social protection and transition to the formal economy, says Luis Frota, a senior social protection expert from the ILO. The interview took place at the #SDGStudio at European Development Days, #EDD17 in Brussels on 8 June 2017.
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Youth Employment in Tanzania
07 February 2017
Increasing the number of young women & men in productive employment.
2016
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The one stop shop: The Mongolian experience for delivering social protection and employment services
08 November 2016
The video shares the Mongolian experience for delivering social protection and employment services through the one-stop-shop.
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Creating a culture of social protection in Mongolia
08 November 2016
The video shares the Mongolian experiences in education of social protection.
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ILO Director-General Guy Ryder address on universal social protection
06 September 2016
This address was prepared for the China-ASEAN-ILO High-level seminar to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on universal social protection through South-South and Triangular Cooperation, which takes place 6-8 September 2016 in Beijing, China.
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Employment Injury Insurance – The Workers Compensation Fund in Tanzania
23 August 2016
Employment injury benefit schemes, providing benefits in cash and in kind in cases of work-related accidents and occupational disease, constitute the oldest branch of social security in many countries. The ILO has estimated that, worldwide, more than 2.3 million people die from work-related accidents or diseases each year. Employment injuries and work-related diseases cause the deaths of 6,300 workers per day around the world.
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I contribute, therefore I benefit from social security
20 January 2016
This video is part of the International Labour Organization awareness raising campaign on the informal economy and undeclared work in Moldova.