Launched 08 SEPTEMBER 2022

Social Protection Campaign

Sustainable and Decent Social Protection

Through this campaign, we can address non-discriminatory access to gender-responsive emergency healthcare, essential services for persons experiencing violence or harassment, basic income security for persons whose jobs and livelihoods have been disrupted by any crisis, basic social services, and other social protection mechanisms.

Definition, Facts and Coverage

What is Social Protection?

Social protection, or social security, is a human right and is defined as the set of policies and programmes designed to reduce and prevent poverty and vulnerability throughout the life cycle. Social protection includes child and family benefits, maternity protection, unemployment support, employment injury benefits, sickness benefits, health protection, old-age benefits, disability benefits and survivors’ benefits.

Social security is a universal human right to which everyone in any society should have access to; including low skilled migrant workers who are often excluded or significantly limited in their coverage.

POLICY BRIEF

Social Protection for Low-Skilled Migrant Workers and their Families

Social Security: “the protection which society provides for its members through a series of public measures, against the economic and social distress that otherwise would be caused by the stoppage or substantial reduction of earnings resulting from sickness, maternity, employment injury, Unemployment, invalidity old age and death; the provision of medical care and the provision of subsidies for families with children.” ILO, 1984.

Say Yes to Social Protection for all Migrant workers!

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Phone

Phone: +63-2-8277-9484

Mobile: +639215405063

Address

25 Matiyaga Street, Central District, Diliman, Quezon City 1100

Philippines