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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · Apr 15

Join us this Thursday for the #ILO paper launch and our discussion of public employment programmes at the intersection of labour market and social protection policies. #JobGuarantee @socialprotection.org @cbehrendt.bsky.social

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · Mar 8

The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF

It's fascism, plain and simple.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Mar 1

UN human rights experts expressed concerns about the new US administration today – some key excerpts:

• In today’s globalised and multi-polar world, no country can function without international cooperation and respect for international law.

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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Mar 1

Watch this interview in full - huge respect for this President and the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.foxnews.com/media/zelens...

Zelenskyy speaks out after public spat with Trump, Vance, says dustup 'bad for both sides'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits down for an exclusive interview on "Special Report" after his tense meeting with President Donald Trump.

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devpathways.bsky.social @devpathways.bsky.social · Jan 24

🌏 Help push Social Protection to the top of the UN's Second World Summit for Social Development agenda!
Take a few minutes to fill out UNRISD's critical consultation form: www.unrisd.org/en/activitie...
Deadline: Feb 3rd #SocialProtection #WSSD2025

www.unrisd.org

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Dominic Afscharian @afscharian.bsky.social · Jan 24

#Inequality (both of income and wealth) is "one of the strongest predictors" of democratic erosion. Cannot stress enough the relevance of this recent paper for social policy and adjacent fields 👇🏼

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is an interesting study on the relationship between economic inequality and democratic erosion:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Overall, certainly something worth pondering.

Screenshot of the first page of the paper.
Title: Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century
Authors: Eli G. Rau and Susan Stokes
Significance:
In the 21st century, democracy is more often threatened by elected presidents and prime ministers than by military coup-makers. What are the causes of this rise in democratic erosion? Cross-national statistical analysis points toward one robust finding: The more unequal income distribution is in a democracy, the more at risk it is of electing a power-aggrandizing and norm-shredding head of government. Even wealthy and longstanding democracies, like the United States, are vulnerable if they are highly unequal (though national wealth might provide some resiliency). Therefore, policies that improve income equality may have the political effect of strengthening democratic systems.

Abstract:
Among the most pressing problems societies face today are economic inequality and the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. In fact the two problems—inequality and democratic erosion—are linked. In a large cross-national statistical study of risk factors for democratic erosion, we establish that economic inequality is one of the strongest predictors of where and when democracy erodes. Even wealthy and longstanding democracies are vulnerable if they are highly unequal (though national wealth might provide some resiliency). The association between inequality and risk of democratic backsliding is robust, and holds under different measures and structures of both income inequality and wealth inequality. The association is unlikely to be a case of reverse causation. For concerned citizens seeking to understand why so many democracies are eroding and how to stop this process, our study indicates that policies for ameliorating inequality are a promising path forward.

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Jan 22

🌍🌎🌏In 2025, the #UN General Assembly will hold the Second World Summit for Social Development (#WSSD), 30 years after the first, to address social challenges and advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with a focus on justice, equality, and inclusion.

UNRISD @unrisd.org · Jan 7

💡 Calling Thinkers and Changemakers

Global leaders will meet at the 2025 World Summit for Social Development to redefine priorities for a fairer world

🗣️What are the urgent challenges we must tackle?
🔗 Submit your ideas: bit.ly/3WJeYhk
🕒 Deadline: 3 Feb 2025

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Valentina Barca @valentinabarca.bsky.social · Jan 21

International Social Security Review, Call for Papers for Special Issue: #SOCIALSECURITY: ENABLING AND PROMOTING #RESILIENCE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Costanza de Toma @cosdetoma.bsky.social · Jan 19

Want to hear firsthand about what’s cooking in #socialprotection at the ITCILO?

📣Join the launch of our courses for 2025. Learn about exciting new courses, ask any questions and hear from former participants & expert tutors.

📆 22/1/2025
⏱️ 2 - 3pm CET
✅ itcilo-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Dec 12

Happening now - join us for this very insightful and inspiring event on universal health coverage and universal social protection

Let’s work together towards achieving #SDG1 and #SDG3!

🗓️12 Dec 2024 | 9:00-17:30 CET
📍 Hybrid: Geneva & Online
🔗 Register now 👉 bit.ly/496zBJ8

ILO | Social Protection Platform

Social Protection is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security. It aims to capitalize on experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation

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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Dec 8

Happy Sunday! Sharing our paper on enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, with a strong emphasis a life-cycle approach to system-building. www.ilo.org/publications...

Making social protection work for gender equality: What does it look like? How do we get there?

This paper outlines the perspective and approach of the ILO’s Universal Social Protection Department to enhancing the gender-responsiveness of social protection policies, anchored in international soc...

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Silke Staab @silkestaab.bsky.social · Nov 29

Join us on Dec 5th for the virtual launch of UN Women's new flagship report "Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation"!

👉 Register for the virtual launch: socialprotection.org/learn/webina...
👉 Download the report: www.unwomen.org/en/digital-l...

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Nov 26

📚This is the first in a six-part #BlogSeries based on the 2024 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (@UN_Women). Access the full report: 🔗https://buff.ly/3C84osl and stay tuned for next parts! 📡

World survey on the role of women in development 2024: Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation | socialprotection.org

The “World survey on the role of women in development” is presented every five years to the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It provides a unique opportunity…

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Nov 26

🚨 Globally, 2 billion women and girls lack #SocialProtection. ✍️Explore our blog, "Closing gender gaps in social protection coverage and adequacy" by Christina Behrendt, Ian Orton, Valeria Nesterenko, Krithi Ramaswamy and Shahra Razavi

👉 Read here: https://buff.ly/3CM3jXP

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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Nov 26

… and delve into more detail in the UN Women’s World Survey on the Role of Women in Development and the ILO’s World Social Protection Report. @silkestaab.bsky.social

Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Nov 26

Have a look at our blog on closing #gender gaps in #socialprotection coverage and adequacy, with some recommendations for gender-responsive social protection policies. 👉 Read here: lnkd.in/gwA2_ZqS

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Nov 25

What a loss to the global community! RIP.

Kun Lee @kunlee.bsky.social · Nov 24

Walter Korpi, respected scholar in social policy & welfare state, passed away

Kjell Rautio @kjellrautio.bsky.social · Nov 22

En av mina samhällsvetenskapliga idoler, Walter Korpi, har lämnat oss.
Vila i frid Walter. ♥️🌹
demokraatti.fi/walter-korpi...

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Costanza de Toma @cosdetoma.bsky.social · Nov 25

Day 1️⃣ of our workshop on public finance for #socialprotection analysts in #Dakar with 25 participants from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and DRC. The 🗝️question is: why and how to finance universal social protection. 👀 this space for more updates!

@cbehrendt.bsky.social, @knoxvydmanov.bsky.social

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Charles Knox-Vydmanov @knoxvydmanov.bsky.social · Nov 20

The ILO has created a dashboard on informal employment and it's extremely cool. www.unglobalaccelerator.org/resource/inf...

I'm often struck by how much better data availability/curation is on these kind of issues are compared to, say, a decade ago

@cgalian.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org

Screenshot of the International Labour Organization's informality dashboard. Link in the post.

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Christina Behrendt @cbehrendt.bsky.social · Nov 19

Oh great! Good to see so many familiar faces - and many more! Looking forward to engaging with this growing community!

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