The Global Network Report on Social Protection launched in Asia

On October 7th, the Labour Education and Research Network launched the Global Network Report 'Realising Decent Work and Social Protection for All' in Asia.

As Reynaldo Rasing, Executive Director of LEARN and Regional Coordinator for Global Network in Asia, explains: “From Pakistan, Bangladesh and India to Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines, the need for universal social security to cover the vast majority of working people in the informal sectors is one of the most important work for the labor movement today.”

He continued: “The road towards Decent Work for all will be long and difficult for workers in Asia, a region which is home to millions of informal and precarious workers. But step by step, and through coordinated activism, changes are possible. For example, the adoption of the ILO Convention for Domestic Workers (C189)4 was made possible also thanks to the coordinated work of many trade unions, social movements, civil society groups and local and regional domestic workers’ unions in the Asian region who have become integrated and coordinated towards a collective, international and strategic advocacy.”

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