| Location: | Online, Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsc-qtqTgrE9SnIIq5oLZYCd_geocWOB2B) |
| Date: | 4 October, 2023 |
| Time: | 3 – 4 pm (CEST) |
| 3:00 - 3:05 | Moderator
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| 3:05 - 3:25 | Global testimonies on the challenges of poverty targeting and pension privatization
Sarala Emmanuel, Feminist Collective for Economic Justice in Colombo, Sri Lanka Guillermo Zuccotti, CGT, Argentina Manuel Riesco, CENDA Foundation, Chile |
| 3:25 – 3:35 | Questions & Answers |
| 3:35 - 3:45 | Introduction to the universal Social Security Campaign
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| 3:45 – 4:00 | Stand up for the Right to Social Security! Closing remarks from campaign organizers |
Interpretation will be provided for Arabic and Spanish . Please register at this link.
Cascading crises – from the pandemic to conflict and the climate breakdown – are exposing social tensions and deepening fractures arising from an economic approach that has emphasized growth with little regard to human rights, the equitable distribution of resources, or the environment. The erosion of public services, social security/protection and labor rights, have increased inequality and enabled an elite few to capture the vast majority of global resources, posing one of the most pressing threats to human rights of our time.
Correcting course demands transforming economies, social policies, development paradigms, and the international financial architecture to enable states to fulfill their human rights obligations. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which play a key role in responding to these crises, have a critical opportunity to contribute to transformative change, yet they are continuing the same failed policies and practices.
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet in Marrakech, Morocco, 9-15 October, and the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors – supported by many other civil society organizations and trade unions – is launching a campaign to highlight key demands to end the injustice that more than 4 billion people in the world face every day without social protection coverage:
You are kindly invited to take part in the launch event, on 4 October 2023 (3 – 4 pm, CEST - Confirm your local time here) by registering through this link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsc-qtqTgrE9SnIIq5oLZYCd_geocWOB2B).
Further information about the campaign is available here. Please sign on to the statement using this link HERE, and help us spread the word and encourage others for endorsements.
LANZAMIENTO DE LA CAMPAÑA:
SEGURIDAD SOCIAL PARA TODOS: PILAR CLAVE DEL NUEVO CONTRATO ECO-SOCIAL
Fecha: 4 de Octubre de 2023
Horario: 1 – 2 pm UTC. Puedes confirmar tu hora local aquí.
Registrate aquí para el lanzamiento virtual:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsc-qtqTgrE9SnIIq5oLZYCd_geocWOB2B
Habrá interpretación al árabe y al español.
Agenda
Moderadora: Farah Al Shami, Arab Reform Initiative
Testimonios de todo el mundo sobre los retos de la lucha contra la pobreza y la privatización de las pensiones
Presentación de la Campaña Seguridad social para todos. Isabel Ortiz, Global Social Justice
Defendamos el derecho a la Seguridad Social!
Antecedentes y contexto
Las crisis en cascada -desde la pandemia hasta los conflictos y las catástrofes climáticas- están exponiendo las tensiones sociales y profundizando las fracturas derivadas de un enfoque económico que ha hecho hincapié en el crecimiento con escasa consideración por los derechos humanos, la distribución equitativa de los recursos o el medio ambiente. La erosión de los servicios públicos, la seguridad/protección social y los derechos laborales han incrementado la desigualdad y han permitido a unas pocas élites privilegiadas acaparar la inmensa mayoría de los recursos mundiales, lo que supone una de las amenazas más acuciantes para los derechos humanos de nuestro tiempo.
Corregir el rumbo exige transformar las economías, las políticas sociales, los paradigmas de desarrollo y la arquitectura financiera internacional para que los Estados puedan cumplir sus obligaciones en materia de derechos humanos. El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y el Banco Mundial, que desempeñan un papel clave en las respuestas a estas crisis, tienen una oportunidad decisiva para contribuir a un cambio transformador y, sin embargo, continúan con las mismas políticas y prácticas fracasadas.
El Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) se reunirán en Marrakech (Marruecos) del 9 al 15 de octubre, y la Coalición Mundial por los Pisos de Protección Social -con el apoyo de muchas organizaciones de la sociedad civil y sindicatos- lanzan una campaña para presentar las principales demandas para acabar con la injusticia a la que se enfrentan cada día más de 4.000 millones de personas en el mundo que no cuentan con cobertura de protección social:
Tenemos el agrado de invitarles a acompañarnos al lanzamiento virtual que tendrá lugar el 4 de Octubre de 2023, 1 pm UTC. Puedes confirmar tu hora local aquí) y puedes registrarte en este vínculo https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsc-qtqTgrE9SnIIq5oLZYCd_geocWOB2B).
Más información sobre la campaña se encuentra disponible AQUÍ. Puedes apoyar la campaña firmando la declaración que se encuentra AQUÍ.
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JOIN US TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR ALL
GLOBAL COALITION FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION FLOORS - GCSPF |
The Global People’s Assembly is a self organised space during the United Nations General Assembly high level with the aim of bringing the voices of the people to the forefront, at a time where decision makers engage in high level debate without people’s involvement. The 2022 Global People’s Assembly took place online from Tuesday 20th September – Thursday 22nd September 2022.
A Declaration developed with inputs from over 30 national and regional people’s assemblies, was adopted at the three–day Global People’s Assembly on Tuesday 22 of September, organised by Global call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) and allies, during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly. “The time to act is now,” the group calls for a shared political and economic power equally between the global north and global south, for global democracy and a robust civic space. Read the Declaration.
The recordings of the sessions are also available.
The Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors is co-organizer of the Global People’s Assembly and several members participated in the sessions.
Isabel Ortiz (Global Social Justice Switzerland) participated in the opening session.
Sylvia Beales Gelber (APSP and member of the coalition core group) participated in the African Assembly and spoke on the right to universal social protection in Africa and the call for the global fund. Her presentation is here.
Florian Juergens-Grant (WIEGO) participated on behalf of the GCSPF at the session Leave No Woman Behind on 21st September. His presentation is here.
The webinar the “Work Bank, IMF and Universal Social Protection following COVID-19: The Good, the Bad and the Unclear” will take place on 20 October at 14:00 GMT+1.
Speakers
Lena Simet, Senior Researcher on Poverty and Inequality, Human Rights Watch
Tavengwa Nhongo, Executive Director, African Platform for Social Protection
Daisy Sibun, Social Policy Officer, Development Pathways
Isabel Ortiz, Director, Global Social Justice Program, Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Evelyn Astor, Economic and Social Policy Advisor, International Trade Union Confederation
Ghislaine Saizonou Broohm, Coordinator of the Department of Equality and Social, ITUC Africa
Florian Juergens-Grant, Project Manager, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
Moderator Rachel Moussié, Director of Programmes, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing crises driving up the cost of food and basic necessities for many around the world, highlight the urgent need for all countries to make rapid progress towards achieving universal social protection.
While human rights and international labour standards clearly recognise that ensuring adequate social protection is a responsibility of national governments, international cooperation plays an important role in supporting countries to realise those responsibilities. This may come in the form of financial support to countries struggling to finance the full required social protection system, as well as technical advice on the design and implementation. International organisations also influence international and national debates on what social protection should look like, and who should pay for it.
International financial institutions (IFIs), such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that offer access to financing for cash-strapped governments can be particularly influential. Both have scaled-up their engagement in social protection in recent years: The World Bank is by far the largest external donor of social protection, while the IMF has recently published its first strategy outlining when and how to engage on social spending.
Civil society organisations, unions, workers’ organisations and some UN agencies have generally been critical of IFIs focus and track-record on social protection, stressing their perceived lack of regard to rights and labour standards, as well as their consistent emphasis on exclusionary safety nets, conditionalities and privatisation.
Then COVID-19 happened, and it seemed like everything was going to change. During the height of the crisis, the IMF has supported higher expenditure on health care and cash transfer programmes even when it meant higher fiscal deficit and public debt. A few months ago, the IMF published its first gender strategy. The World Bank likewise provided substantive support to the expansion of social protection during the pandemic and its brand-new social protection strategy is explicitly framed around achieving USP.
In this webinar, representatives from different CSOs, unions and workers’ organisations will share their perspectives on whether, and if so, how, IFIs have changed their position on social protection in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on newly published evidence, we will discuss what is new regarding IFI’s engagement on social protection, what counts as progress, and what are areas where IFIs may continue to fall short on realising the right to social protection for all.
Organisers:Action Contre La Faim, ACF (Action Against Hunger), Act Church of Sweden, The Africa Platform for Social Protection, APSP, Development PathwaysInitiative for Policy Dialogue, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors, Human Rights Watch, International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC-Africa/CSI-Afrique and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, WIEGO.
Resources:
Human Rights Watch: IMF/World Bank: Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection
WIEGO and ITUC Africa: Building Forward Better: Investing in Africa’s Workers (also in French and Spanish)
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Global Social Justice (GSJ), International Confederation of Trade Unions (ITUC), Public Services International (PSI), ActionAid International, Arab Watch Coalition, Bretton Woods Project, Eurodad, Financial Transparency Coalition, Latindadd, Third World Network (TNW)
ITUC response to the World Bank’s Social Protection and Job Compass
ITUC response to the IMF’s Framework on Social Spending
Wemos: END AUSTERITY. A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25
Development Pathways and Act Church of Sweden, Social registries: a short history of abject failure
Act Church of Sweden, Action Against Hunger France, Development Pathways, Can a leopard change its spots?
Read more at socialprotection.org
The Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors submitted a written statement to the 47th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held from 21 June to 9 July 2021. . This session considered the report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on “The Global Fund for Social Protection: International Solidarity in the Service of Poverty Eradication”. The statement is here.
(General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC)
(UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights)
(Executive Director of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
(Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania – ELCT)
(Project Officer, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action)
Over 200 civil society organizations and trade unions unite to call for a Global Fund for Social Protection to protect the most vulnerable during COVID-19 and beyond.
The programme Improving Synergies Between Social Protection and Public Finance Management provides medium-term support to multiple countries aiming to strengthen their social protection systems at a national level and ensure sustainable financing. The programme aims to support countries in their efforts towards achieving universal social protection coverage.
