... of the resulting standards. It reveals the inadequacy of the Finnish social protection system, in which only pensioner incomes reached the reference budget standard while other cash transfers and benefits were about 70 percent of the reference budgets. consumption Finland reference budgets reference budgets RBs...

... protection frameworks ultimately placed limits on children’s voices, which resulted in my becoming a covert researcher, ‘lurking’ online, as sanctioned and deemed preferable by the ethics committee. The concept of ‘do no harm’ and the ethics associated therewith had underestimated the child’s life...

...Chapter 6 looks closely at the stories of two individuals in very different circumstances, but both afflicted with a deep sense of shame about relying on the Australian government for protection. Hasan was in limbo while he waited for the outcome of a review of his asylum case. Monica was a single...

... environment protection value chain economic empowerment women’s empowerment humanitarian development Panay Samar Leyte Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) hit the Visayas regions of the Philippines on November 8, 2013. With wind speeds peaking at 315kph, the storm remains one of the strongest...

... Survey FRS Coalition Government 2010– Conservative Party Mirrlees Review pensions social care vested interests job retention scheme lobby groups Self Employment Income Support Scheme SEISS public services wealth employment solo self-employment taxation social protection fairness Taxes...

... frameworks that could derail principled rights-based approaches to international protection. We identify ambiguities and ad hoc policies predicated on the use of discretionary executive powers. Rather than a rule-based framework that guides and coordinates local, national, regional and international...

...Given ‘common-sense’ wisdom that violence is required to stop violence, any serious investigation into unarmed civilian protection (UCP) must first critically examine widespread beliefs about the protective value of violence and then identify the mechanisms by which nonviolence, in the form of UCP...

... This chapter grows out of ongoing doctoral research on nonviolent forms of civilian protection that I am undertaking at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University, funded by a Australian Government Research Training Stipend and an Endeavour Scholarship...

...Although there is a growing body of literature on nonviolence, there are fewer writings on the relationship between unarmed civilian protection (UCP) and nonviolence and how the two concepts work together in practice. This chapter will bridge this gap; the author argues that nonviolence is not only...

...This chapter addresses the underexplored physical protection of ex-combatants in the process of reintegration into civilian society. The authors study the example of Colombia where, despite official safety guarantees, more than 300 former FARC guerrillas have been assassinated since the signing...

.... The signing into law and, ultimately, the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) in 2019 created a favourable atmosphere to embed a local, comprehensive and inclusive civilian protection mechanism in the transition phase – the process of normalization. By using a mixed-method analysis, this chapter...

... protection Accompaniment Critical theory Conflict transformation Nonviolence This book has provided an introduction to unarmed civilian protection and accompaniment (UCP/A) and hopefully has sparked interest in learning more about this field and possibly pursuing research related to the many questions...

... in Environmental Care and Protection ESMAD Escuadrón Móvil Antidisturbios – Mobile Anti Disturbances Squadron national riot police ESMAD identity CORMEPAZ Corporacion Memoria y Paz – Memory and Peace Corporation Cataumbo Dialogue Environmental protection Conflict-sensitive environmentalism On the morning...

... relationality Adolescent social work child protection context weighting Contextual Safeguarding (CS) framework innovation implementation Some might think of it as a ‘buzzword’. Others consider it a term to describe what they have known for some time. While some practitioners, policy makers and academics...

...A body of social work literature evidences the relationship between the wider contexts of young people’s lives, such as poverty, austerity, racism and so on, their experiences of harm and the child protection response to it. This literature casts a light on significant inequalities in outcomes...

...When introduced, Contextual Safeguarding (CS) promoted two key ways to better integrate responses to extra-familial harm (EFH) into child protection systems. Firstly, building reference to extra-familial contexts (like peer groups) into social work assessments that had traditionally focused...

...In this chapter, I will examine the Korean social protection and labour market policies, as well as the empirical trend in the Korean labour market. The chapter will also provide legal and statistical definitions of various new forms of work in Korea, including platform work. Furthermore, I...

... the gender gap in the Korean labour market, focusing on ten young female call centre workers and examining the issues of institutional protection and job instability surrounding older and younger female subcontracted labour in call centres and cleaning services. The chapter underscores how outsourcing has...

... that had the executive responsibilities for health protection through the management of its laboratories and research. The chapter highlights the application of the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and the Single European Market (SEM) within...