A/HRC/RES/42/13
Underscoring the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all human rights,
including the right to social security, and recognizing that women during their life cycle are
subject to discrimination in the context of realizing their rights on an equal basis with men
owing to structural impediments, including their disproportionate share of unpaid care and
domestic work, as well as gender biases and gaps in the design and implementation of social
security systems, and welcoming in this regard the agreed conclusions of the Commission on
the Status of Women at its sixty-third session on social protection systems, access to public
services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women
and girls,
Underscoring also that efforts to realize the right to social security should be inclusive
and accessible to all, and noting in particular that persons with disabilities are
disproportionately affected by the abridgment of their right to social security,
Recognizing that progress has been made in achieving accessible, available, eligible
and adequate social security, yet deeply concerned that many persons in all regions continue
to face significant obstacles and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination in
exercising their right to social security and to receive benefits and services on an equal basis
with others, particularly in developing countries, while recognizing that the fulfilment of the
right to social security contributes to the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental
freedoms,
Acknowledging the work of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in
particular the International Labour Organization, in supporting the efforts of States to
promote full and productive employment and decent work for all and the full realization of
the right to social security using a human rights-based approach,
Acknowledging also the efforts of the International Social Security Association, which
aims to promote excellence in social security administration by means of professional
guidelines, expert knowledge, services and support to enable its members to develop dynamic
social security systems and policies throughout the world, and of the Global Partnership for
Universal Social Protection, which aims to make pensions and maternity, disability and child
benefits, among others, available to all persons, closing the gap for hundreds of millions
currently unprotected worldwide,
1.
Decides to convene, before its forty-fifth session, an intersessional full-day
panel discussion on the right to social security in the changing world of work with a view of
identifying challenges and best practices, and also decides that the discussion will be fully
accessible to persons with disabilities;
2.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
organize the panel discussion in consultation with States, relevant United Nations agencies,
funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedures and regional human rights
mechanisms, as well as with civil society, non-governmental organizations, including
organizations representing social security right-holders, academia or academics, national
human rights institutions and specialized national equality bodies and financial institutions
as appropriate with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion;
3.
Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a summary report on the panel
discussion and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth session;
4.
Invites the relevant mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and the treaty
bodies to continue to pay particular attention to the realization of the right to social security;
5.
Decides to remain seized of the matter.
39th meeting
26 September 2019
[Adopted without a vote.]
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