Promoting Livelihoods and Social Protection

It is estimated that only about 20% of the world’s population have access to comprehensive social security programs, which are known as social protection programs. This means that most people do not have, or have inadequate, access to essential services such as health and education and lack basic income security. This low figure is despite the fact that social protection has been inscribed as a human right in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights for over 60 years. Read more...