比利时为保证生活工资
和生活收入迈出了新的一步
Belgian Cooperation
takes a new step to
guarantee a living
wage and living income
比利时于7月5日与德国、荷兰和卢森堡一同签署了《生活工资和生活收入联合宣言》。只有当我们全球供应链中的工人和小农户获得生活工资或生活收入时，我们才能有效地解决贫困、饥饿、森林退化、气候变化和童工等重大挑战。
作为一个消费国，比利时的责任是确保产品供应链——比方说巧克力棒——中的每个人都有权获得公平、足够的收入，以达到体面的生活水平。这是1948年12月10日联合国大会在巴黎通过的《世界人权宣言》的一部分。正是为了这个目标，保障生活工资和生活收入很重要。“生活收入”的概念意味着一个家庭有足够的资源来支付食物、住房、医疗、教育、交通和其他基本方面的费用，同时也有足够的储备，并不仅仅是为了让受益人维持生计。
Belgium has signed the Joint Declaration on Living Wage and Living Income, joining Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on 5 July. It is only when workers and smallholder farmers in our global supply chains earn a living wage or living income that we can effectively address the major challenges of poverty, hunger, deforestation, climate change and child labour.
Belgium’s responsibility as a consuming country is to ensure that everyone in the supply chain of a product (for example, a chocolate bar) is entitled to fair and adequate income for a decent standard of living - a right included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948. It is precisely to this objective that a living wage and a living income contribute. The concept of "living income" implies that a family has sufficient resources to cover the costs of food, housing, health care, education, transport, and other essential aspects, but also sufficient reserves. It is not just about making ends meet for beneficiaries.
因此，荷兰和德国在2021年1月签署了《关于生活工资和生活收入的联合宣言》。该宣言提出了一系列的行动，其中值得强调的是：在消费国和生产国之间进行关于适当的最低收入的对话，支持国际劳工组织（ILO）制定生活费用指标，并鼓励社会参与以增强生产国工人的能力。《联合宣言》还建议各国应共同努力，使这一问题成为欧洲立法者的优先事项之一。
在2022年6月21日于柏林举行的高级别会议上，比利时宣布愿意作为第三个签署国加入该宣言。2022年9月，卢森堡表示愿意签署该宣言。
Hence, the Netherlands and Germany signed in January 2021 a Joint Declaration on Living Wage and Living Income. The declaration proposes a series of actions, among which the following can be highlighted: establish a dialogue between consumer and producer countries on an adequate minimum income, support the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the development of cost-of-living indicators, and encourage social dialogue for the empowerment of workers in producer countries. The Joint Declaration also suggests working together to make this issue one of the priorities of the European legislator.
At a high-level meeting in Berlin on 21 June 2022, Belgium announced its willingness to accede to this Declaration as a third signatory. In September 2022, Luxembourg expressed its readiness to sign the Declaration.
On 5th of July, 2023, the Minister for Development Cooperation, Caroline Gennez, is pleased to announce that Belgium has joined the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg in signing the Joint Declaration on Living Wage and Living Income. You can read more about it on the following links:
•《生活工资和生活收入的联合宣言》Joint Declaration on Living Wage and Living Income:
https://gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/documents/actualites/2023/06-juin/27-joint-declaration-living-wage-living-income/joint-declaration-signed-by-de-lu-be-nl.pdf
•荷兰、德国、比利时和卢森堡的联合新闻发布 Joint press release by the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg:
https://gouvernement.lu/en/actualites/toutes_actualites/communiques/2023/06-juin/27-joint-declaration-living-wage-living-income.html