GCSPF e-Newsletter #122 | September 2025 Edition

The online Global People's Assembly Event – 10 Years of SDGs – will take place on 25 September 2025 from 7 to 9 am New York time (11am to 1pm GMT/UTC).
The 10th Anniversary of the SDGs is an opportunity to share critical reflections on the SDGs, and ways forward in the current global landscape. What are the reasons for the slow implementation or even regression of SDGs? How can we act together more effectively in the current context of wars and global injustices – economic, climate and social, extreme inequalities, growing authoritarianism and geopolitical tensions?  How do we build on our collective efforts from the FfD4 conference, and carry our demands forward through to the World Social Summit and the COP30?
The event shall be part of the Economic Justice Mobilisation 2025 and the Global Week of Action - Draw the Line.
French and Spanish interpretation will be available. Register here

The online workshop “Maternity Protection and the Care Economy in ASEAN: Policy & Implementation Gaps Realities, and Social Movement Strategies” contributes to the regional advocacy and campaign to promote transformative care economy in Asia. Our ongoing advocacy for maternity protection emphasises the important role of maternity protection in social protection systems, in the care policies and in the promotion of gender equality.
The webinar will be held on 26 September 2025 from 8:45 AM to 12:15 PM BKK time through Zoom. Read the Concept Note. Register here

This Social Protection Briefing Note published by WIEGO examines various aspects of social protection delivery programmes and their significance for workers in informal employment. The focus is on policies that provide services or cash benefits designed to improve workers’ access to social protection benefits and the role of workers’ organizations in the last mile of social protection delivery. Read more

The Joint Statement serves as a shared advocacy agenda directed at ASEAN and its Member States, with a particular emphasis on universal maternity protection as a foundation for building a transformative care economy in Southeast Asia. To address the challenges regarding Persistent Gender Gaps in the labour market, Lack of social protection and maternity protection, Barriers to healthcare access, Workplace discrimination and the invisible unpaid care, Informality and the missing middle, and Policy gaps in ASEAN. Read more

Intense and prolonged heatwaves are becoming one of the most dangerous climate-driven challenges in South and Southeast Asia. Millions of outdoor and informal workers — construction laborers, street vendors, waste collectors, and migrants — are disproportionately at risk. According to the ILO, excessive heat already causes 23 million injuries and 19,000 deaths globally each year. In South Asia alone, the region is projected to lose the equivalent of 43 million full-time jobs to heat stress by 2030.
This report is published by People’s Courage International (PCI) and the Migrants Resilience Collaborative (MRC). Read more

This award aims to honour the legacy of the late Michael Cichon, whose life’s work profoundly shaped the global social protection agenda. Submission Deadline: September 26th, 2025. Read more

The ILO Working Paper 149 examines how existing data protection laws often fail to safeguard workers in increasingly digitalized workplaces. It highlights regulatory gaps across jurisdictions and proposes worker-centric data governance solutions to ensure fairer, more effective protection in the digital age. Read more

IDOP 2025 offers a timely space to reaffirm the value of participation, complementarity, and shared vision in building a society where human rights do not diminish with age.
The adoption of HRC/RES/58/13 marked the beginning of a formal process and sustained engagement will be essential to ensure that a robust and inclusive text is achieved. Governments, the United Nations system, civil society, and national human rights institutions each have distinct yet complementary responsibilities in this endeavor. Actions are needed at every level—from grassroots mobilization to multilateral negotiations—reinforcing one another.
Friday, 26 September 2025, from 13:00 to 15:00 (CET) at the Palais des Nations, Room V, Building “A” in Geneva, and also online. Read more