Goal

Achieve Economic Justice [46]

Interlinkages

Targets

Enact living wage lawsthat guarantee that all workers, including women, those in the informal sector, agricultural workers, and migrant workers, earn enough to live with dignity.

Ensure that wages grow with productivity; and increasecooperation between countries on exchange rates, trade and fiscal policies, and wagesto prevent a race to the bottom.

Implement policies to ensure that all women, men and young people have access to decent work, including by enacting legal protections to provide security in the workplace, social protection for workers and their families, paid parental, breastfeeding, care and sick leave; promote collective bargaining, and organization, and the rights of workers to participate in decision-making that affects their lives.

Ensure trade, investment, financial and intellectual policy rights policiesthat do not impede countries’ abilities, fiscal or policy space to provide economic opportunities and services to their people or undermine the right to development.

Guarantee universal social protection for all, including income security for the unemployed and those whose livelihoods depend on precarious work, the sick, the disabled, pregnant women, children and the elderly.

Guarantee the right to universal access to quality public health services, education, food, water, sanitation, energy and justiceand implement targeted policies and programs to ensure that women, the poorest and most marginalized, including migrants, refugees and stateless peoples, are able to access and benefit from these services.

Move towards economies that are owned, driven and planned by peopleto meet their development needs and guarantee their human rights.

End policies that promote the exploitation of migrant workersand the use of remittances to finance national development priorities, and create an enabling environment for migrant workers to enjoy their human rights; strengthen cross-border and multi-sectoral collaboration between countries of origin and destination to promote migrants’ rights, including to social protection; and guarantee access to health, education, and other social services for migrants, regardless of their migration status.