Universal and Comprehensive Social Protection Systems and Floors: Essential to Fight Poverty and Inequality - During the week of 3 November 2014, the UNIVERSAL SOCIAL PROTECTION ADVOCACY TOUR – targeting European Union Representatives- was organised by the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors, SOLIDAR, Brot für die Welt and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung with the participation, among others, of the Arab NGO Network for Development - ANND (Lebanon), the Phoenix Center (Jordan), the African Platform for Social Protection (Kenya), the Trade Union Confederation (Ghana), CIPPEC (Argentina), SEWA (India), HelpAge International and the Asia Europe People Forum (The Philippines).
The Tour included dialogue with CSOs advocating for Universal Social Protection and Tax Justice as well as exchanges with EU representatives (Members of the European Parliament, Permanent Representation officials, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) representatives, and European Commission officials) to advocate for the inclusion of universal and comprehensive social protection systems and floors in the post-2015 development framework. The dialogue has been covered on twitter through#SocialProtection4All. The full overview of the demands raised can be found here.
