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Suisse: Assurance maladie - Les primes augmentent plus vite que les salaires | switzerland | TDG (23.08.2016) Avec la fin de l’été vient le temps des tracas financiers pour la famille Mesot. Comme à chaque rentrée, elle va devoir tailler dans son budget pour s’assurer que ses quatre enfants, âgés de 15 à 24 ans, disposent des fournitures scolaires requises. |
Health, Financing | http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/primes-augmentent-vite-salaires/story/2… | monitor | |||||
ILO: World Employment and Social Outlook 2016 - Trends for Youth: Global youth unemployment is on the rise again | ILO/News (24.08.2016) Ongoing ILO research shows that after a number of years of improvement, youth unemployment is set to rise in 2016 and young people are disproportionately affected by working poverty. |
Employment of young workers | youth employment | http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_513728/lang--en/inde… | monitor | |||||
Fiji: Social Pension Scheme - 20,000 will benefit | fiji | Fiji Times Online (19.08.2016) Twenty thousand senior citizens in the country who do not have access to Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) superannuation, or pension after care fund, can now access Government's Social Pension Scheme (SPS). |
Extension of coverage | extending coverage | http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=367448 | monitor | ||||
Countries with the best paternity and maternity leave: The top 10 | Business Insider (22.08.2016) America does plenty of things well, but paid parental leave isn't one of them. |
Family benefits, Parental leave | megatrends | http://uk.businessinsider.com/countries-with-best-parental-leave-2016-8?r=US&IR… | monitor | |||||
Nicaragua Hosts Regional Congress on Occupational Health and Safety | latin america | Prensa Latina (18.08.2016) Nicaragua today will host the first international Congress on Occupational Health and Safety, with the participation of experts from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, in addition to the host country. |
Occupational accidents and diseases | http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=2676&SEO=nicaragua-hosts-regional-co… | monitor | |||||
Veep: More than half of Iran population under social security cover | iran | Zawya (01.09.2016) According to the report of Vice-President Office, Jahangiri in meeting with Secretary General of International Social Security Association (ISSA) Hans-Horst Konkolewsky here on Wednesday said that Iran's Social Security Organization needs international interactions and… |
http://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/More_than_half_of_Iran_population_under_soci… | monitor | ||||||
Hashemi Rafsanjani's innuendo about Trump: Your power and wealth comes from plundering the immigrants | iran | AhlulBayt News Agency (01.09.2016) According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency – ABNA – "Hans-Horst Konkolewsky", Secretary General of the International Social Security Association, had a meeting with Haashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of the Expediency Council, on Wednesday, August 31st. |
http://en.abna24.com/service/iran/archive/2016/09/01/776110/story.html | monitor | ||||||
Couverture maladie universelle : 600 000 Gabonais économiquement faibles bénéficient de la CNAMGS | gabon | L0Union (19.08.2016) Le Gabon est l’un des rares pays du continent africain à offrir une couverture maladie universelle à sa population. L’Etat, faut-il le reconnaître, a considérablement renforcé la protection sociale des segments de la population autrefois exclus du système, comme les… |
Extension of coverage | extending coverage, poverty | http://www.union.sonapresse.com/gabon-economie/couverture-maladie-universelle-6… | monitor | ||||
Solución "a la uruguaya" de la seguridad social reduce riesgos e induce a aportar | uruguay | El País (25.08.2016) Son varios los temas referidos a la seguridad social que ingresaron en los últimos tiempos en la discusión sobre la economía uruguaya. Algunos de estos planteos encierran cuestionamientos fuertes y solicitudes de modificaciones como los recientes de los afiliados entrados en… |
Financing | http://www.elpais.com.uy/economia/noticias/solucion-uruguaya-seguridad-social-r… | monitor | |||||
Les pays d’Europe de l’Est vent debout contre une réforme des « travailleurs détachés » | Le Monde (29.08.2016) Les gouvernements des pays d’Europe de l’Est ne semblent pas prêts à baisser la garde. Pas question d’accepter un durcissement de la législation européenne sur les « travailleurs détachés », un texte qui permet à leurs citoyens, depuis le milieu des années 1990, d’aller… |
Employment, Migration | megatrends, migration | http://mobile.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/08/29/les-pays-d-europe-de-l-est… | monitor | |||||
Implementing successful reforms: The case of social assistance in South Africa | blogs.worldbank.org (18.08.2016) South Africa’s social assistance system – through a comprehensive set of cash transfers -- covers nearly 16 million people. This is a big improvement from 1994, when cash transfers reached fewer than three million beneficiaries and suffered from discrimination… |
Social assistance, Social policies & programmes, Inequalities | managing reforms | http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/implementing-successful-reforms-case… | monitor | |||||
France: Chômage - les petits boulots favorisent le retour à l’emploi durable, selon une enquête | france | Le Monde (26.08.2016) Lorsque l’on est demandeur d’emploi, vaut-il mieux se consacrer pleinement à sa recherche d’emploi ou occuper un emploi temporaire, souvent à temps partiel ? Et quel est l’impact d’une activité réduite sur le retour à l’emploi et sa qualité ? |
Employment | megatrends | http://mobile.lemonde.fr/emploi/article/2016/08/26/l-activite-reduite-favorise-… | monitor | ||||
Mikel Arriola llama a fortalecer sistemas de seguridad social de América Latina | latin america | Excelsior (31.08.2016) Con la representación del Presidente de la República, Enrique Peña Nieto, el Director General del IMSS, Mikel Arriola, inauguró hoy la XXVIII Asamblea General de la Conferencia Interamericana de la Seguridad Social (CISS), a la que asisten representantes de 36 países de la… |
Extension of coverage, Social policies & programmes, Inequalities | extending coverage | http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/08/24/1112958 | monitor | ||||
Informe sobre pensiones despierta suspicacias | Panamá América | panama | Panama Amercica (24.08.2016( Un informe preliminar sobre el Programa de Invalidez, Vejez y Muerte de la Caja de Seguro Social (CSS) fue entregado por el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) a la vicepresidenta Isabel de Saint Malo. |
Old-age pensions, Pensions | managing reforms | http://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/nacion/informe-sobre-pensiones-despierta-suspic… | monitor | ||||
¿Pasará Varela reforma de Seguro Social panameño a la próxima Administración? | panama | Estrategia y Negocios (09.08.2016) Caja del Seguro Social (CSS) panameña está en riesgo de quiebra y precisa una reforma a su programa de Invalidez, Vejez y Muerte (IVM). Todo parece indicar que actual Administración no la afrontará y la dejaría en manos del próximo presidente, apuntan… |
Old-age pensions, Social policies & programmes | managing reforms | http://www.estrategiaynegocios.net/lasclavesdeldia/988101-330/pasar%C3%A1-varel… | monitor | ||||
México tiene más de 2 mil planes privados de pensión: Consar | mexico | La Jornada (31.08.2016) En el país ya existen dos mil 17 planes privados de pensiones que cubren a 1.4 millones de trabajadores y han sido registrados ante Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (Consar), informó el organismo regulador. |
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/08/31/mexico-tiene-mas-de-2-mil-planes-… | monitor | ||||||
UK: NHS plans closures and radical cuts to combat growing deficit in health budget | The Guardian (26.08.2016) NHS bosses throughout England are quietly drawing up plans for hospital closures, cutbacks and radical changes to the way healthcare is delivered in an attempt to meet spiralling demand and plug the hole in their finances, an investigation by the Guardian and campaign… |
Health, Financing | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/nhs-plans-radical-cuts-to-fight… | monitor | ||||||
Cybersanté: Les Suisses bientôt maîtres de leurs données médicales? | switzerland | TDG (26.08.2016) Cybersanté: L’audition des ordonnances de la loi fédérale sur le dossier électronique du patient a pris fin le 29 juin dernier. La loi devrait entrer en vigueur courant 2017 |
Health, Information and communication technology | http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/suisses-bientot-maitres-donnees-medical… | monitor | |||||
Allemagne : une croissance record de sa population en 2015 due aux migrants | germany | La Tribune (29.08.2016) Sans l'arrivée massive de réfugiés, la plupart venus de Syrie, d'Irak ou d'Afghanistan, la population allemande aurait régressé, selon l'Institut Destatis. |
Migration | megatrends | http://www.latribune.fr/economie/union-europeenne/allemagne-une-croissance-reco… | monitor | ||||
México: Sólo 25% de población en vejez recibe pensión económica | mexico | Jornada UNAM (28.08.2016) Con motivo del Día Nacional del Adulto Mayor, que se conmemora este 28 de agosto, Verónica Montes de Oca, del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS), y Marissa Vivaldo Martínez, académica de la Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Zaragoza de la UNAM, señalaron… |
Old-age pensions | poverty | http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/08/28/solo-25-de-poblacion-en-vejez-rec… | monitor | ||||
UK: MPs say cuts are 'false economy' in drive to improve poor people's health | The Guardian (01.09.2016) Health select committee says government must fulfil health pledges and take on big industry interests to tackle childhood obesity and diabetes |
Health | poverty | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/01/mps-say-cuts-are-false-economy-… | monitor | |||||
Migrant women of Viet Nam claim social protection and rights | vietnam | unwomen.org (24.08.2016) An estimated 40 – 50 per cent of migrants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the two biggest cities in Viet Nam, are women, and they face distinct challenges. Low and unstable incomes and lack of social protection make them particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.… |
Migration | migration | http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2016/8/migrant-women-of-viet-nam-claim-s… | monitor | ||||
Antigua: New social protection bill to improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable | antigua | Antigua Observer (03.09.2016) As government moves to enact the National Social Protection Bill, the country’s Minister of Social Transformation and Human Resource Development, Samantha Marshall, remains adamant that it will only benefit the poor and vulnerable. |
Extension of coverage, Inequalities, Shocks & extreme events | extending coverage, poverty, megatrends | http://antiguaobserver.com/new-social-protection-bill-to-improve-the-lives-of-t… | monitor | ||||
Taiwan, China: What's that? Hearing loss is top occupational illness | china | The China Post (20.08.2016) Hearing loss was ranked as the most common occupational disease in Taiwan last year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Labor (MOL) Friday. |
Occupational accidents and diseases | http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2016/08/20/476055/Wha… | monitor | |||||
Panamá: El 85% de las empleadas del hogar no cotiza a la CSS | panama | Impresa Prensa (11.04.2016) El Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral calcula que en el país hay cerca de 90 mil personas que se desempeñan como trabajadoras en el hogar. Pero solo 13 mil 500 están inscritas en la Caja de Seguro Social (CSS). Este es un problema que se registra en todo el… |
Extension of coverage, Migration, Inequalities | extending coverage | http://impresa.prensa.com/panorama/empleadas-hogar-cotiza-CSS_0_4458304135.html | monitor |