As a member of the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI), the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) shared the NANHRI statement at the Panel Discussion on challenges and good practices to realize the right to social security and to provide quality public services, which was organized on Friday 8 March 2024, within the framework of the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), held from 26 February to 5 April 2024, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Conscious of the impact of social security on human rights, the NANHRI emphasized the need for a human rights-based approach and involvement of human rights defenders in elaboration of COVID-19 national response strategies. Additionally, it published a report on advancing social security rights.

In this context, the NANHRI called to:

• Ratify the African Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security;
• Review policies and legislative frameworks and align them with universal human rights standards on the right to social protection and social security;
• Monitor, investigate and report on the right to social protection and social security and provide redress for established human rights violations thereto, while emphasizing marginalized and disadvantaged groups, including migrants and persons with disabilities, and paying attention to intersecting forms of marginalization, such as elderly migrants;
• Enhance synergy between National Statistical Offices, National Social Protection Agencies, research institutes and United Nations agencies to a human rights-based approach to data collection, including Sustainable Development Goals data collection.

Download NANHRI Statement