Half the world lacks social protection amid climate crisis, ILO warns

Social protection is essential to safeguard people from shocks, but half the world is without any coverage, including over 90 per cent of people living in climate-vulnerable countries, according to a new report released on Thursday by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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Half the world lacks social protection amid climate crisis, ILO warns

Social protection coverage in Asia and the Pacific ‘riddled with gaps’

15 Oct 2020

More than half of the people living in Asia and the Pacific lack any social protection coverage, leaving populations vulnerable to ill-health, poverty, inequality and social exclusion, a new UN report has found.

4.1 billion lack social safety net, warns UN labour agency

01 Sep 2021

More than four billion people live without any welfare protection today to cushion them from crisis, the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday, while highlighting how the COVID-19 crisis has pushed up government spending by some 30 per cent.

Workers and COVID-19: Access to healthcare, now ‘a matter of life and death’

14 May 2020

The spread of COVID-19 in developing countries has exposed gaps in social protection coverage which could compromise recovery plans, expose millions of people to poverty and affect global readiness to cope with similar crises, according to two policy briefs issued Thursday by the International Labour Organization (ILO).