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• ILO Background Note to the G8 Labour and Employment Ministers Conference May 2007, Dresden) (pdf 95 KB)

The Labour Ministers of the G8 countries met in Dresden, Germany, on 6-8 May to discuss the “Shaping of the social dimension of Globalisation". The Director General of the ILO in his address stressed the importance of social protection for global social equity, and the importance of the latter for the acceptance of the globalization process. He emphasized that a global social floor was needed to add a social dimension to globalization. The background paper provided by the ILO can be downloaded here.


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• Launch of the Global Social Trust pilot project of Luxembourg

The Confédération Syndicale Indépendante du Luxembourg OGB-L through its NGO Solidarité Syndicale, the Ministry of Health in Ghana and the International Labour Office have entered into an agreement to implement the Global Social Trust (GST) pilot project in Ghana. The Global Social Trust pilot project in Ghana will provide a cash benefit of approximately US$ 10 per month (Euros 7.50 per month) to Ghanaian indigent pregnant women and mothers with children under the age of five who meet conditions of pre-natal, post-natal and regular health check-ups.


• Social Health Policy: An ILO strategy towards universal access to health care (pdf 723 KB)
; also available in french (pdf 732 KB); also available in spanish (pdf 793 KB)
This draft paper is the first in the Department's series of papers in the field of social health protection and is a contribution to the assignment bestowed on the International Labour Office by the International Labour Conference, namely to launch a major campaign for the extension of social security to all. It aims to set forth some basic notions about the ILO strategy on "Rationalization of the use of pluralistic financing mechanisms".


• Social security for all: Investing in global social and economic development - A consultation (pdf 180 KB)
; also available in french (pdf 435 KB); also available in spanish (pdf 419 KB)
This publication is a contribution to the assignment that the International Labour Conference bestowed on the International Labour Office, i.e. to launch a major campaign for the extension of social security to all. It is of a consultative nature. We hope that it is the beginning of a wider debate between social security stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and decision-makers as to how to provide some form of social security to the majority of the world’s populations and to ensure that the human right to social security (article 22 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights) can be made a reality in the shortest possible time. In the course of that debate we shall almost certainly have to modify our views, but we hope that the basic approach that underpins our thinking – i.e. a rights-based approach that advocates universal access to social security – is flexible and open enough to achieve a wide consensus on the two central objectives of social security: poverty alleviation and the granting to all people of the opportunity to live their lives in the absence of debilitating material insecurity.