Join us this Thursday for the #ILO paper launch and our discussion of public employment programmes at the intersection of labour market and social protection policies. #JobGuarantee @socialprotection.org @cbehrendt.bsky.social socialprotection.org/learn/webina...

The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF

It's fascism, plain and simple.

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UN human rights experts expressed concerns about the new US administration today – some key excerpts: • In today’s globalised and multi-polar world, no country can function without international cooperation and respect for international law. 1/3 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Watch this interview in full - huge respect for this President and the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.foxnews.com/media/zelens...

Zelenskyy speaks out after public spat with Trump, Vance, says dustup 'bad for both sides'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits down for an exclusive interview on "Special Report" after his tense meeting with President Donald Trump.

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#Inequality (both of income and wealth) is "one of the strongest predictors" of democratic erosion. Cannot stress enough the relevance of this recent paper for social policy and adjacent fields 👇🏼

Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com · 2y ago

This is an interesting study on the relationship between economic inequality and democratic erosion: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Overall, certainly something worth pondering.

🌍🌎🌏In 2025, the #UN General Assembly will hold the Second World Summit for Social Development (#WSSD), 30 years after the first, to address social challenges and advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with a focus on justice, equality, and inclusion.

UNRISD@unrisd.org · 2y ago

💡 Calling Thinkers and Changemakers Global leaders will meet at the 2025 World Summit for Social Development to redefine priorities for a fairer world 🗣️What are the urgent challenges we must tackle? 🔗 Submit your ideas: bit.ly/3WJeYhk 🕒 Deadline: 3 Feb 2025

International Social Security Review, Call for Papers for Special Issue: #SOCIALSECURITY: ENABLING AND PROMOTING #RESILIENCE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Want to hear firsthand about what’s cooking in #socialprotection at the ITCILO? 📣Join the launch of our courses for 2025. Learn about exciting new courses, ask any questions and hear from former participants & expert tutors. 📆 22/1/2025 ⏱️ 2 - 3pm CET ✅ itcilo-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happening now - join us for this very insightful and inspiring event on universal health coverage and universal social protection Let’s work together towards achieving #SDG1 and #SDG3! 🗓️12 Dec 2024 | 9:00-17:30 CET 📍 Hybrid: Geneva & Online 🔗 Register now 👉 bit.ly/496zBJ8

Happy Sunday! Sharing our paper on enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, with a strong emphasis a life-cycle approach to system-building. www.ilo.org/publications...

Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?

This paper outlines the perspective and approach of the ILO’s Universal Social Protection Department to enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, anchored in international soc...

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Join us on Dec 5th for the virtual launch of UN Women's new flagship report "Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation"! 👉 Register for the virtual launch: socialprotection.org/learn/webina... 👉 Download the report: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-l...

📚This is the first in a six-part #BlogSeries based on the 2024 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (@UN_Women). Access the full report: 🔗https://buff.ly/3C84osl and stay tuned for next parts! 📡

World survey on the role of women in development 2024: Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation | socialprotection.org

The “World survey on the role of women in development” is presented every five years to the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It provides a unique opportunity…

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🚨 Globally, 2 billion women and girls lack #SocialProtection. ✍️Explore our blog, "Closing gender gaps in social protection coverage and adequacy" by Christina Behrendt, Ian Orton, Valeria Nesterenko, Krithi Ramaswamy and Shahra Razavi 👉 Read here: https://buff.ly/3CM3jXP

Have a look at our blog on closing #gender gaps in #socialprotection coverage and adequacy, with some recommendations for gender-responsive social protection policies. 👉 Read here: lnkd.in/gwA2_ZqS

What a loss to the global community! RIP.

Kun Lee@kunlee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Walter Korpi, respected scholar in social policy & welfare state, passed away

Day 1️⃣ of our workshop on public finance for #socialprotection analysts in #Dakar with 25 participants from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and DRC. The 🗝️question is: why and how to finance universal social protection. 👀 this space for more updates! @cbehrendt.bsky.social, @knoxvydmanov.bsky.social

The ILO has created a dashboard on informal employment and it's extremely cool. www.unglobalaccelerator.org/resource/inf... I'm often struck by how much better data availability/curation is on these kind of issues are compared to, say, a decade ago @cgalian.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org