From welfare to rights: Historical evolution of social security and ILO’S impact: An overview

With the advent of new technology and modernisation and changes in individual’s behaviour and family raises the necessity of social security and solidarity. Promotion of competitiveness and attraction of foreign direct investment by government reduces income security and social protection. In contemporary time social security issues are considered as major non-traditional security issues across the globe. Social security is an essential objective of any modern society, which constitutes a social commitment to provide social and economic need to people. The primary goal of social security is to maintain the standards of living and quality of live by strengthening individual feeling for income security. It is a mechanism of social transformation and social progress, since men and women get benefits, they automatically become more productive. Social security includes wider aims with prevention of poverty. At present social security is considered as human right. Social Security have not received the present status in a day, it grown through different way in different time. International Labour Organisation played remarkable role in the standardisation of social security mechanisms worldwide. The paper aims to discuss the evolution of social security over time and the role of International Labour Organisation in this matter. It also analyses whether social security could be considered as human rights or not.