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Social Security and the Global Socio-economic Floor

Towards a Human Rights-based Approach

van.ginn{at}wanadoo.fr

This article shows that the commitment towards economic and social human rights, including the right to social security, will provide a strong force towards realizing the global socio-economic floor. The right to social security has become realizable in a growing number of countries that have focused on the extension of social security coverage. This article shows that a global social security floor is affordable, including in low-income countries, with the initial support from the international community. The article then explores how a global socio-economic floor could be better implemented through a human rights-based approach, and it reviews some of the recent initiatives undertaken by the UN Human Rights Council. It suggests a number of steps to improve the effective implementation of the human rights-based approach. It concludes that such an approach can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and provide the framework for global policies for development and poverty eradication beyond 2015.

Key Words: extension • global socio-economic floor • human rights • Millennium Development Goals • social security • poverty

Global Social Policy, Vol. 9, No. 2, 228-245 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1468018109104627


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