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The Universal Social Protection Department provides ILO member States with tools and assistance to achieve and maintain the human right to social protection. Since its creation in 1919, the ILO has actively promoted policies and provided assistance to countries to supply adequate levels of social protection to all members of society guided by international social security standards adopted by its tripartite constituents, in particular its flagshipConvention concerning Minimum standards of social security, 1952 (No. 102) and theSocial Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202).
Highlights
ILO Live
SDG Action Weekend, High Impact Initiatives: Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions
13 million people enjoy better social protection through improved financing
ILO Live
Development partners meeting of the Global Flagship Programme on building social protection floors for all
Joint ILO-UNICEF report
Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally
News
ILO launches Massive Open Online Course "Making Universal Social Protection a Reality"
Multilateralism
ILO Director-General warns of threat to social justice at meeting with Chancellor Scholz and other international organization leaders
Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
ILO Director-General calls for social protection and minimum wages to respond to cost-of-living crisis
Key resources
Flagship Report
World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Social protection at the crossroads - in pursuit of a better future
Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience
Guidebook for policymakers, workers’ and employers’ organizations and other stakeholders