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Social Protection, the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights

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This article is an attempt to outline the possible implications of a rights‐based approach to social protection and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It starts with some remarks on the role of social protection floors and human rights in a new global social contract. It then provides a framework as to how the rights‐based approach can be operationalised – for four main human rights principles and using structural, process and output indicators. It applies this framework to the right to social security. The penultimate section shows that the adoption of national social protection floors would constitute a key ingredient to a human rights approach towards achieving the MDGs before and after 2015. It also points out the potential role of the UN Human Rights Council in monitoring MDGs in the future.

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  • Wouter van Ginneken, 2011. "Social Protection, the Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(6), pages 111-117, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:42:y:2011:i:6:p:111-117
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    1. Akerkar, Supriya & Joshi, P.C. & Fordham, Maureen, 2016. "Cultures of Entitlement and Social Protection: Evidence from Flood Prone Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 46-58.
    2. Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna, 2016. "City Indicators on Social Sustainability as Standardization Technologies for Smarter (Citizen-Centered) Governance of Cities," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 128(3), pages 1193-1216, September.

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