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During this Special Session of the 5th Conference of the Regulating for Decent Work Network, panellists discuss a human rights-based approach to social protection for persons with disabilities, the role of social protection systems in gender equality and other issues related to social assistance, social policies and the future of work.

9:45 - Magdalena Sepúlveda: Ensuring Inclusion in Social Assistance Programmes: The Human Rights Principle of Equality and Non-Discrimination

28:44 - Valeria Esquivel: Care Policies as Part of Social Protection: Lessons from Uruguay and Costa Rica

45:30 - Gabriele Köhler: The Politics of Rights-Based, Transformative Social Policy in South and South East Asia

57:43 - Catalina Devandas: Leaving No One Behind: Disability-Inclusive Social Protection

1:14:14 - Q&A, discussion

For more resources, visit:

socialprotection-humanrights.org

unrisd.org

Presentations at this panel are published in a Special Issue by the International Social Security Review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issr.2017.70.issue-4/issuetoc

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