Documents Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 5 results

"Climate change is an existential threat for people and our planet. Its harmful effects undermine the full enjoyment and realisation of all human rights, disproportionately affecting those who are already in vulnerable situations. States, as guarantors of human rights, have an obligation to protect people from the adverse impacts of climate change. Yet, despite the fact that the climate crisis is worsening and requires urgent attention, no dedicated mechanism at the Human Rights Council (HRC) – the United Nations inter-governmental body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world – addresses climate change holistically…"

"The authors suggest a simple, feasible, pragmatic and affordable global strategy to support the attainment of social protection for all as a central means to combat poverty, inequality, insecurity and ill health; the strategy involves: Establishing a new international standard of universal social protection or universal social protection floors to extend the policy space for social protection on the national level and Pivotal, targeted support for the temporary extension of national fiscal space for social protection in the poorest countries through a Global Fund for Social Protection or a similar financing facility."

"In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development international support for establishing and financing social protection floors must be organised within a partnership-based framework. • The authors therefore argue that if a new international financing mechanism is set up for this purpose, it should be designed in such a way that recipient governments retain full ownership of their social protection systems. • Moreover, it will be necessary that the recipient countries, as well as civil society actors be included in the decisionmaking processes of the new mechanism and that effective accountability instruments are implemented."