Month: March 2012

Older than ten countries organizations declare that social protection is a basic human right. UDP signed on behalf of the Spanish associations. -the State is responsible for its implementation and implementation, for such purposes, to promote active policies that give content rights -signatories do not accept the subordination of social policies to the economic Madrid, March 2012.- organizations of retirees and pensioners of eight countries have signed the Declaration of Montevideo, within the framework of international organisations national, regional and European retirees, pensioners and older adults, made the days 6,7 and 8 March 2012 in the city of Montevideo. The signatories argue that Social Security is a Fundamental human right, laid down in article 22 of the Universal Declaration of human rights of 1948, and the article 9 of the International Covenant of economic, social and cultural rights of 1966 ”. The Declaration stresses that the State is responsible for its implementation and implementation, for such purposes, to promote active policies that give content rights. The signatories argue that Social Security and Social protection, implemented rationally and with criteria of fairness and solidarity, are suitable for social economic growth and its subsequent development tools, which means an inherent contribution in terms of redistribution of national income with criteria of social justice. The document rejects, a social security transformed largely into a financial commodity listed, where governing principles, totally different...