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Ageing and social security: Ten years after Madrid
ISSA, 29.09.2011 | Feature | Old age / Survivors
Theme 2011: Launch of Madrid+10: The Growing Opportunities and Challenges of Global Ageing Twenty years on from the first UN International Day of Older Persons, this year’s theme looks towards another anniversary: Ten years since the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid in 2002, which r...
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Changes in the Hungarian pension system in 2010-2011
ISSA, 15.09.2011 | Feature | Administration & management, Old age / Survivors
The major changes that Hungary made to its mandatory two-pillar pension system in the latter half of 2010 were designed to address the perceived under-performance of the funded second pillar, encourage people to work longer and, in recognition and support of family life, to provide a fairer syste...
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Girl in red
Social security responses to the Japan earthquake
ISSA, 15.09.2011 | Feature | About social security, Extending coverage
On 11 March 2011, a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 struck off the north-eastern Pacific shore of Japan. The earthquake, subsequent tsunami and numerous aftershocks caused tremendous damage across a wide area of the country centred on the Tohoku region, in the north-eastern of the...
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Putting safety first in a globalized world: Good practice in the Chemical Industry
ISSA, 15.09.2011 | Feature | Occupational risks
Clear, unambiguous and up-to-date information on the dangers in the workplace and how to minimize potential hazards is absolutely vital in the prevention of accidents. In a globalized world - where goods or components may be manufactured in one country, transported across continents and used ulti...
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Harvesting work
Reforming Egypt’s social security system: A vision for social solidarity
ISSA, 14.06.2011 | Feature | Managing reforms, Old age / Survivors
Egypt is looking to reform its social security system by pursuing the objectives of strengthening social solidarity, ensuring financial sustainability, improving redistribution and providing better social protection for the majority of the population.
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Upcoming Events

Regional Social Security Forum for Europe 2013
ISSA, 28.05.2013 - 30.05.2013 | Istanbul, Turkey
Training Course on Social Health Insurance
24.06.2013 - 04.07.2013 | Seoul, Korea