The activation line in social security and social assistance law: a human rights perspective

2014 ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Tine Eidsvaag
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Assistance

The Global Rise of Social Cash Transfers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Leisering
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Security ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Social Cash Transfers ◽  
The Right

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights. The right to social security, however, has been taken more seriously only since the 2000s, through calls for ‘Social security for all’ and ‘Leaving no one behind’. The book investigates a major response, social cash transfers to the poor. The idea of simply giving money to the poor had been rejected by all major development organizations until the 1990s, but since the early 2000s, social cash transfers have mushroomed in the global South and on agendas of international organizations. How come? What programmes have emerged in which countries? How inclusive are the programmes? What models have international organizations devised? Based on unique quantitative and qualitative data, the book takes stock of all identifiable cash transfers in all Southern countries and of the views of all major international organizations. The author argues that cash transfers reflect broader changes: new understandings of development, of human rights, of global risks, of the social responsibility of governments, and of universalism. Social cash transfers have turned the poor from objects of charity into rights-holders and agents of their own lives and of development. A repertoire of cash transfers has evolved that has enhanced social citizenship, but is limited by weak political commitments. The book also contributes to a general theory of social policy in development contexts, through a constructivist sociological approach that complements the dominant approaches from welfare economics and political economy and includes a theory of social assistance.

scholarly journals "Agora eu também tenho uma luta, assim como vocês" / “Now I have a struggle, just like you”

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-268
Author(s):  
Carla Regina Silva ◽  
Isadora Cardinalli ◽  
Marina Sanches Silvestrini ◽  
Ana Carolina Silva Almeida Prado ◽  
Jaime Daniel Leite Junior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Extension Program

Esta criação foi inspirada no Programa de Extensão Direitos Humanos para a Diversidade: construindo espaços de arte, cultura e educação que implementou espaços integrados de educação, arte e cultura em serviços públicos da saúde e da assistência social, com populações marcadas por estigmas sociais. Através de ações voltadas para a defesa dos direitos humanos, buscou-se promover formação e experimentações sensibilizadoras pelo contato com recursos artísticos e culturais. A equipe transdisciplinar pode aperfeiçoar suas ações a partir da opção teórico metodológica da arte engajada em prol do reconhecimento das potencialidades dos participantes, produzindo ações com foco no respeito, empoderamento, cidadania ativa e autonomia. Como resultados obtivemos maior apropriação e criticidade acerca de temáticas dos direitos humanos, sua diversidade e a produção de deslocamentos sensíveis. Os processos criativos que compõem este trabalho foram gestados por membros da equipe ativos no processo, a partir dessa experiência formadora e transformadora. This creation was inspired by the Extension Program “Human Rights for Diversity: building spaces for art, culture and education”, which implemented integrated areas of education, art and culture in public services of health and social assistance, with populations marked by social stigmas. Through actions for the defense of human rights, the project sought to promote training and to sensibilize experiments by contact with artistic and cultural resources. The transdisciplinary team can improve its actions, from the theoretical and methodological option of the art engaged in favor of the recognition of the potentialities of the participants, producing respect, empowerment, active citizenship and autonomy. As results, it was obtained greater ownership and criticality on human rights, its diversity and production of sensitive actions. The creative processes that make up this work were developed by team members active in the process, from this formative and transformative experience.Key words: Art, Culture, Rights human, Formative, Transdisciplinarity Esta creación fue inspirada en el Programa de Extensión “Derechos Humanos de la Diversidad: construyendo espacios de arte, cultura y educación” que implementó espacios integrados de educación, arte y cultura en servicios públicos de salud y asistencia social, con poblaciones estigmatizadas socialmente. A través de las acciones enfocadas en la defensa de los derechos humanos, se buscó promover la formación y los experimentos de sensibilización, usando recursos artísticos y culturales. El equipo transdisciplinar puede refinar sus acciones a partir de la opción teórico metodológica del arte comprometida en favor del reconocimiento de las potencialidades de los participantes, generando respeto, empoderamiento, ciudadanía activa y autonomía. Como resultados obtuvimos mayor apropiación y criticidad de los derechos humanos, la diversidad y la producción de acciones sensibles. Los procesos creativos que componen este trabajo fueron gestados por miembros del equipo activos en el proceso, a partir de esa experiencia formadora y transformadora.Palabras claves: Arte, Cultura, Derechos humanos, Formación, Transdisciplinariedad

scholarly journals ADOLESCENTES EM CONFLITO COM A LEI E DIREITOS HUMANOS: desafios para implementação do Sinase

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Aurora Amélia Brito de Miranda ◽  
Beatriz Gershenson Aguinsky ◽  
Cândida da Costa ◽  
Lisélen de Freitas Avila ◽  
Maria Jacinta Jovino Carneiro da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Brazilian Legislation ◽  
Recursos Humanos ◽  
The Law ◽  
Educational Care

O artigo trata das inovações da legislação brasileira na política de atendimento socioeducativo aos adolescentes em conflito com a lei (SINASE), destacando avanços e desafios. Examina o papel da proteção social especial da Política de Assistência Social e do SUAS na execução das medidas socioeducativas. Tem como referência a pesquisa do Estadodo Maranhão (UFMA), articulada ao Mapeamento Nacional do Atendimento Socioeducativo (SDH/PR/CONANDA) e as reflexões da equipe da PUCRS. Afirma diferentes questões a serem enfrentadas pelo atendimento socioeducativo, tais como: o reduzido número e a baixa qualificação dos recursos humanos; a incipiente articulação entre atores do Sistemade Garantia de Direitos; a ausência de intersetorialidade entre as políticas públicas e o reduzido financiamento para as medidas socioeducativas.Palavras-chave: Atendimento socioeducativo, direitos humanos, Política de Assistência Social, adolescentes.ADOLESCENTS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS: challenges to SINASE implementation.Abstract: The article discusses the innovations of Brazilian legislation on social educational care policy to adolescents in conflict with the law (SINASE), highlighting advances and challenges. It examines the role of the special social protection of Social Assistance Policy and the SUAS in the execution of social educational measures. Taking as reference the researchof the State of Maranhão (UFMA), articulated to the national Mapping of Social Educational care (SDH /PR/CONANDA) and the reflections of the team of PUCRS. Different issues are affirmed to be faced by Social Educational care, such as: the reduced number and the low qualification of human resources; the incipient articulation between actors of the Systemof Guaranteed Rights; the absence of intersectoral collaboration among public policies and the reduced funding educative measures.Keywords: Social and educational care, human rights, Social Assistance Policy, adolescents.

scholarly journals Interpretation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Human Rights Bodies in Times of Economic Distress. The case of Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Saranti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Case Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Economic Distress ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Of Greece

Economic, social and cultural rights have borne the brunt of the recent economic crisis and the austerity measures adopted to counter it. Due to their gradual implementation and the need of positive measures to implement them, they were the first to be attacked. After discussing the possible ways of applying economic, social and cultural rights in the first part of the essay, I will then examine their application during economic crises with a special reference to Greece focusing mainly on two fields, labour rights and social security rights, and the case-law produced by international human rights bodies in that respect.

Towards a Theory of Social Assistance

2018 ◽  
pp. 335-353
Author(s):  
Lutz Leisering
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
The South ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Global North ◽  
Social Cash Transfers ◽  
North And South

This chapter sets out a theory of social assistance (including social cash transfers), which covers both the global North and South, and discusses the future of income security in the South beyond social cash transfers. It is argued that social assistance constitutes a small but vital component of social security and social citizenship—‘residual but fundamental’. It is further argued that social assistance is ‘fundamental but not comprehensive’, i.e. the challenge of universalizing social citizenship extends beyond relieving poverty. To confront the problem of inequality and get the middle classes on board, cash transfers need to be embedded in a broader, multi-tiered architecture of social security, which increases political support also for cash transfers. Still, despite the fundamental contributions of social assistance and the positive effects of cash transfers in many countries of the South, these programmes remain Janus-faced, entailing inclusions and exclusions, recognition and stigma, autonomy and social control.

POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND ESPECIALLY CHILD BENEFIT

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER TOWNSEND
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Present Form ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Investment Fund ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
First Millennium

Poverty has been reduced by too little, or not at all, in recent years. A fifth, perhaps a quarter, of the world's population are living in extreme poverty. The measurement of the phenomenon, and especially of annual trends in the rates and severity of poverty, is not acceptably precise, consistent, and generally agreed. Nor is policy being analyzed and justified in precise correlation with such trend reports as have been published. The first Millennium Development Goal — to halve world poverty by 2015 — has become an unlikely prospect. The reasons lie in the present form of the globalization of the market, together with continuing preference shown to neo-liberal economic and social policies. If poverty is to be systematically reduced, the orthodoxies of definition, measurement, explanation and resolution, which as key elements of the problem necessarily reinforce each other, have to be re-examined and re-formulated quickly. In re-examining approaches to measurement and policy the new human rights instruments, endorsed by a majority and in some cases by an overwhelming majority of governments, must play a vital role. Their potentialities are considerable for the measurement of poverty, deprivation, exclusion and development. But, crucially, they can help to engineer an international, as well as scientific, consensus in the war on poverty. One priority illustration would be a UN Child Investment Fund to finance the universal right of children to social security.

scholarly journals Women with Disabilities in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Binod Khanda Timilsana
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Disabled Women

 The women who have one or more impairments and experience barriers in society are the women with disability (WWD). Disabled women of all ages, in rural and urban areas, regardless of the severity of the impairment, sexual preference and cultural background or whether they live in the community or an institution are recognized as the WWD. As the Person with Disabilities are deprived, isolated, marginalized and excluded groups of the society, the women who have disability are one of the components of them. The social status of disabled women varies according to individual circumstances and to the country in which they live. Being a member of United Nations, Nepal recognized the human rights of people with disability in the year 1981. Accordingly, it enacted a special law known as the Disabled Persons Protection and Welfare Act, 1982 but even after 36 years of existence, the people with disabilities are often excluded from the mainstream of society and denied their human rights. Nepal is rich with legislative provisions but there is discrepancy between legislation and practices. Social security system is very poor in Nepal; disabled as well as economically marginalized people have not received any kind of social protection (food, shelter, clothes, health, education, and training). The strongest rights to social security may turn out to be nothing more than unfulfilled promises. Again most of the services are situated in urban areas and disabled people from rural areas at more risk. So it is mandatory to cater necessary services to all women with disabilities living in any part of Nepal for the respect, protect and fulfilling the commitment of government by human rights Instruments. The Sapta Gandaki JournalVol. IX, 2018 Feb. Page: 17-25

The European Convention on Human Rights and Residence Requirement for the Purposes of Social Assistance Benefits

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-550
Author(s):  
Mel Cousins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Case Law ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Negative View ◽  
European Court ◽  
Legal Right

Abstract This article examines the case law on whether a requirement that a person have a legal right of residence in order to be entitled to social assistance benefits is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. It looks, in particular, at a recent series of Dutch cases before the European Court of Human Rights in which the Court rejected as inadmissible arguments that the Dutch residence requirement was in breach of the Convention. The recent cases are of particular relevance as the ECtHR had previously taken a negative view of residence requirements in cases such as Niedzwiecki v Germany.1 In contrast to that case, the recent Dutch cases involved the residence status of a co-resident rather than the claimant herself.

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