Social Security – Just as much a Human Right in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

Michael Krennerich

doi:10.5771/0506-7286-2014-1-105

Contents
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- 3–4 Editorial 3–4
  - Editorial
- 5–123 Abhandlungen/Articles 5–123
  - 5–21 A Social Rights Model for Social Security: Learnings from India Jayna Kothari Jayna Kothari 5–21
  - 22–42 Social Security in South Africa – a Gender and Human Rights Analysis Beth Goldblatt Beth Goldblatt 22–42
  - 43–61 Targeting Within Universalism? The Bolsa Família Program and the Social Assistance Field in Brazil Diogo R. Coutinho Diogo R. Coutinho 43–61
  - 62–78 The legal framework of social security systems in developing countries – the example of national health insurance in Ghana Markus Kaltenborn, Lukas Lübben Markus Kaltenborn, Lukas Lübben 62–78
  - 79–104 Social protection in Vietnam: Future prospects from the legal perspective Matthias Meissner Matthias Meissner 79–104
  - 105–123 Social Security – Just as much a Human Right in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets Michael Krennerich Michael Krennerich 105–123
- 124–130 Buchbesprechungen/Book Reviews 124–130
  - 124–127 Zur Zukunft des Mercosur. Sechs Typen rechtlicher Staatenintegration. (Jürgen Samtleben) Niels-Jakob W. Küttner Niels-Jakob W. Küttner 124–127
  - 128–130 Social Security Law in India, Social Security Law in Chile (Markus Kaltenborn, Bochum) Debi S. Saini, Emilio Morgado-Vaenzuela, Hugo Cifuentes-Lillo Debi S. Saini, Emilio Morgado-Vaenzuela, Hugo Cifuentes-Lillo 128–130
- 131–142 Bibliographie/Bibliography 131–142
  - Bibliographie / Bibliography
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Social Security – Just as much a Human Right in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

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Michael Krennerich

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2014-1-105
- ISSN: 0506-7286
- ISSN online: 2941-9603
Abstract

A vast majority of states have formally committed to respect, protect, and progressively fulfill the right to social security by ratifying human rights and ILO conventions. Accordingly, social security systems should guarantee indiscriminate access to health services, provide benefits in the case of work losses due to illness, disability, death of family members, old age, unemployment, and maternity, and further support families, children and adult dependents. As a matter of law and fact, however, social security systems in developing countries usually benefit only a minority of the population. From a human rights perspective, enormous efforts are necessary to increase the coverage of social security systems, reaching people in the informal sector and from poorer parts of the population.
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