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-...

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...

🌏 Help push Social Protection to the top of the UN's Second World Summit for Social Development agenda! Take a few minutes to fill out UNRISD's critical consultation form: www.unrisd.org/en/activitie... Deadline: Feb 3rd #SocialProtection #WSSD2025

#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 👇🏼

🌍🌎🌏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.

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...

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! 📡

🚨 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.

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