Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Introduction of DLI

The goal of the DLI campaign is to set up a strong universal concept of family wage for young workers in Asia and Pacific across sector. Start with the premise that if a person works 40 hours a week, then he/she should be able to live in dignity by having a capacity to afford adequate food, clothing housing, medical care, social services and social security and to be continues improving the living condition.

We refer to some related declaration and convention such as UDHR 25 (1) that Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. ICESCR 11 (1) stated that the States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions."

DLI Components:
  1. Right to adequate food
  2. Right to adequate clothing
  3. Right to adequate house
  4. Right to health & Social Service
  5. Right to social security

Right to adequate food means that every man, woman and child alone and in community with others must have physical and economic access at all times to adequate food using a resource base appropriate for its procurement in ways consistent with human dignity. The right to adequate food is a distinct part of the right to an adequate standard of living. Right to Food is interdependent to the right to work, the right to social security and the right to health.

Food, income and gender; women’s minimum wage is generally lower than men’s minimum wage for the same work. Thus, work that may feed a man may not feed a woman. Women’s weaker economic position makes women usually more vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. The extra strains of pregnancy and child rearing also put an extra risk on women’s food security.

Right to adequate clothing forms an important part of the general right of everyone to an adequate standard of living. The type of clothing to be made available to those in need, in particular the poor, depends on the respective cultural, climatic and other conditions in the country concerned. As a minimum, poor people are entitled to clothes that enable them to appear in public without shame.

Right to adequate house or adequate shelter means adequate privacy, adequate space, adequate security, adequate lighting and ventilation, adequate basic infrastructure and adequate location with regard to work and basic facilities - all at a reasonable cost.

Right to health, Social service and social security; health is one of the components of an adequate standard of living. Historically, the protection of public health has been accompanied by legal regulation - health law is as old as law itself. Its development demonstrates that the state of an individual's health is often determined by factors beyond a person's medical condition. Social service including health care, education and training, recreation, daycare, elderly care, etc., while social security should cover accident, old age, pension, unemployment, disability, death (include informal economy).

As human right, DLI entails the following obligations:
  • Obligation to respect. Obligation to respect requires governments to refrain from interfering directly or indirectly with the enjoyment of the right to DLI
  • Obligation to protect. Obligation to protect requires governments to prevent third parties, such as corporations, from interfering in any way with the enjoyment of the right to DLI
  • Obligation to fulfil. Obligation to fulfil requires governments to adopt the necessary measures to achieve the full realization of the right to DLI

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