Sharan Burrow speaks at the Conference on social protection in the post-2015 UN Agenda

Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, spoke at the "Conference on social protection in the post-2015 UN Agenda", organised on 27 April 2015 by the Belgian Federal Public Service Social Security, in cooperation with the International Labour Organization and the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.

Sharan Burrow participated in the Social partners and civil society panel: creation of support base.

She stressed the important role of social dialogue in the establishment of social protection systems and the crucial role of public services in organising them. She also referred to the fact that whilst 75% of the world has no access to social protection, global GDP increased tenfold over the last 40 years.

Watch Sharan Burrow’s intervention below: