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September 25, 2023 News Release

IMF: Austerity Loan Conditions Risk Undermining Rights

Compound Problems of Rising Inequality, Flawed Mitigation Efforts

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September 15, 2023 Dispatches

An Opportunity to Embrace a Human Rights Economy

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Requires Aligning Financial Institutions with Human Rights

A group of girls at work in a field in Chitwan district, Nepal.
September 12, 2023 Dispatches

Joining Forces for the Right to Social Security

IMF and World Bank Should Change Course

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May 25, 2023 Q & A

Questions and Answers on the Right to Social Security

Umbrellas in open air market.
April 19, 2023 Dispatches

UK Social Security Should Guarantee Adequate Living Standard

Organizations Call on Government to Implement “Essentials Guarantee”

A person holding a shopping basket in a supermarket.
April 18, 2023 News Release

Nepal: Expand Child Grant Program to All Families

Ensure Children’s Right to Social Security

Children write in chalk on the walls of a Saraswati temple on the festival of Saraswati Puja
February 1, 2023 Report

Nepal’s Social Protection System Reinforces Inequality

Expand the Child Grant; Include Informal Workers

A group of girls at work in a field in Chitwan district, Nepal.
January 18, 2023 Statement

Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Rights of the Child and Social Protection

January 2023

December 12, 2022 Report

Lebanon: Rising Poverty, Hunger Amid Economic Crisis

Government and World Bank Should Invest in Rights-Based Social Protection

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April 14, 2022 Report

IMF/World Bank: Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection

Spring Meetings Opportunity to Reset Approach for Universal Social Protection

A woman and her child receive relief goods distributed by a community service center in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 4, 2021.

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