UN pushes for social schemes to protect poor at mere fraction of national wealth
NEW YORK, 14 February 2011: The United Nations began laying the groundwork Monday for a global “social protection floor” that would guarantee food security, health services for all and old-age pensions, with a senior official stressing that all that is lacking is the political will for an initiative needing minimum investment.
– Social security is a human right. We have forgotten that for a very long time, but roughly only 20 per cent of the global population has actually access to social protection mechanisms that actually provide them with a safety mechanism against food poverty at least, said UN International Labour Organization (ILO) Social Security Department Director Michael Cichon.
– And what is a real scandal is you only need 2 per cent of global GDP (bruttonationalprodukt) to basically give security systems to all of the world’s poor, he said in New York as the UN Commission for Social Development met to discuss social protection.
Monday’s session was in preparation for an ILO meeting in June with tripartite delegations of Governments, employers and workers from all 183 member States of the agency to draw up a long-term social protection strategy.
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