This Fact Sheet, co-published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) provides user-friendly guidance on the normative and human rights framework on social protection, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the general comments of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and ILO conventions and recommendations. It highlights challenges and opportunities to realizing the right to social security, strategies to dismantling structural inequalities, and processes and policy options involved in financing social protection. In so doing, the Fact Sheet provides useful guidance for States, United Nations Country Teams and other parties to develop and implement measures to shift from temporary and ad hoc emergency measures to comprehensive and inclusive social security/social protection systems. It also equips civil society organizations with a useful advocacy tool to this end. Further, this Fact Sheet reinforces the important roles played by OHCHR and ILO as reliable sources of information and collaborators in promoting universal social protections.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.

This series is produced by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and deals with selected questions of human rights that are under active consideration or are of particular interest. The Fact Sheets are intended to assist an ever-wider audience in better understanding basic human rights, what the United Nations is doing to promote and protect them, and the international machinery available to help realize those rights.