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World Day of Social Justice 2025
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World Day of Social Justice 2025

World Day of Social Justice takes place every year on 20 February. It was designated by the UN General Assembly in 2007 to remind us of the need to build a fairer and more equitable world and to urge all efforts to combat unemployment and poverty.  

The ILO will mark the occasion this year with a series of five events held in major cities around the globe. The events will bring together high-level speakers from across the world of work to discuss how to put social justice at the centre of international, national and regional policy agendas. 

Achieving universal social health protection for social justice in Asia and the Pacific

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Join representatives of academics, workers organization, members of the Mahidol University, Bangkok, and experts in the field of Social Protection as they discuss how to reinforce commitment to universal social health protection through inclusive policies and to strengthen knowledge-sharing for advancing social health protection.

Panelists

Phạm Tiến Nam
Head of the Department of Social Work, Hanoi University of Public Health
Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin
Associate Professor and Former Dean of Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Mahidol University
Rashim Bedi
Senior Coordinator
Self Employed Women's Association, SEWA
Emiko Nagasawa
Senior Advisor, Japan Business Federation, Keidanren
Sreng Sophornreaksmey
Deputy Secretary General, Cambodia National Social Protection Council (NSPC)

Moderator

Marielle Phe Goursat
Senior Social Protection Specialist
International Labour Organization (ILO)

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