Human Wrongs Watch
Oxfam* — Did you know that at least one in three women (35 per cent) will experience some form of violence during their lifetime – more than one billion women worldwide?
08/01/2018
Violence against Women and Girls: Enough Is Enough
08/01/2018
Netanyahu Wants UN Palestinian Refugee Agency to “Disappear” after Trump’s Funding Cut Threat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a UN agency serving Palestinian refugees to “disappear” because he believes their descendants are a threat to Israel’s existence.
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**Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is left-handed,[38] inspects an M16 rifle at IDF Training Base 1. | Government Press Office (Israel) | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
08/01/2018
Four Billion People Worldwide, Left without Social Protection
Human Wrongs Watch
GENEVA (ILO)* – Despite significant progress in the extension of social protection in many parts of the world, the human right to social security is not yet a reality for a majority of the world’s population, says a new flagship report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
New ILO report shows that massive efforts are still needed to ensure that the right to social security becomes a reality for all.
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According to new data presented in the World Social Protection Report 2017/19: Universal social protection to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals , only 45 per cent of the global population is effectively covered by at least one social benefit, while the remaining 55 per cent– 4 billion people – are left unprotected.
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