“…4 In this scenario, global and local inequality stand out with immense clarity. In some countries, social security schemes provided a safety net for those at risk of unemployment or who lost their jobs long into the crisis, but in the least developed countries, hundreds of millions of people have been thrown into situations of extreme precariousness (see ILO, 2021;Saxena et al, 2021). According to the Human Rights Covid-19 Securitization In-equality (ICESCR), social protection is a human right; nonetheless, 55 per cent of the global population is completely unprotected (ILO, 2017: xxix).…”