Governments of the Middle East and North Africa region should develop and fund comprehensive social protection systems that fulfill all people’s right to social security, Human Rights Watch said today, in signing the joint Declaration on Building Universal Social Protection in the Arab Region.
The declaration, organized by the civil society-led Arab Region Hub for Social Protection, aims to mobilize broad public support for universal social security systems – that is, a network of programs that protect all people from income insecurity at critical moments in their life course, rather than programs that are targeted based on socio-economic status – and urge governments to pursue new and innovative policy approaches to develop these systems.
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