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(f)
A social protection floor for ensuring access to basic social services, shelter,
and empowerment, and protection of the poor and vulnerable;
(g)
Humanitarian, security and social stability, including emergency action to
protect lives and livelihoods, meeting hunger and humanitarian needs, protecting displaced
people and shoring up security and social stability;
(h)
Technology and innovation – developing technological infrastructure to
facilitate the promotion of and access to innovation;
(i)
Monitoring and analysis to strengthen macroeconomic and financial
surveillance and implementing an effective economic early warning system, as well as
establishing a United Nations system-wide vulnerability monitoring and alert mechanism to
track developments and report on the political, economic, social and environmental
dimensions of the crisis.
OHCHR contributes to several of these joint initiatives in order to integrate human rights
perspectives in global responses by the United Nations system.
V. Possible actions to alleviate the impact of the crisis
22.
Addressing the impact of the crisis on the realization of human rights requires
concerted efforts both at national and international levels. The Human Rights Council, in its
resolution S-10/1, called upon States to note that the global economic and financial crises
do not diminish the responsibility of national authorities in the realization of human rights
and urged the international community to support national efforts to protect the most
vulnerable segments of their societies.
23.
Reflecting the above-mentioned Council resolution, several Member States provided
information in their contributions to the present report on relevant actions undertaken by
governments to counteract the impact of the financial crisis and to protect the rights of
those severely affected by it. This section highlights several examples of such actions taken
by States as well as those recommendations and proposals made by the United Nations
human rights mechanisms and other relevant stakeholders.
A.
Protection of the most vulnerable
24.
As called for by the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis, a
number of governments reported on their efforts to coordinate national responses and to
protect or mobilize resources for social protection, food security and other basic services
for the most vulnerable population affected by the crisis. For example, the Government of
Colombia reported that it has adopted a five-pronged strategy in response to the crisis,
including strengthening social assistance to the most vulnerable sections of the population.
Similarly, the Government of Greece reported that a number of measures had been adopted
to balance the effects of the crisis on the most vulnerable population groups. The
Government of Morocco established a coordinating body (Comité de veille stratégique)
presided over by the Ministry of Economy and Finance to deal with the effects of the crisis.
The Government of Serbia reported that it had reacted in a timely manner to the emergence
of the global economic crisis including through the adoption of an Economic Stability Plan
on 9 April 2009, with a view to mitigating the adverse effects of the crisis and ensuring the
social security of citizens.
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