The implementation of the right to social protection through the adoption of social protection floors 2014, para. 11
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The significance for the human rights system of the emergence of the concept of a social protection floor, and its future prospects, can be fully appreciated only against the background of the history of related efforts during the second half of the twentieth century. The concept is widely recognized as having risen with "meteoric speed" on the international development agenda.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights