Article 25 defines this further as the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his or her control. Underlying the Declaration is the belief that people’s ability to achieve socially acceptable standards of living for themselves and those who depend on them should not be determined solely by market forces or by the unevenly distributed capacity to provision for themselves. Yet 60 years after the adoption of the Declaration, approximately 80 per cent of the world’s population is still without access to social security (ILO, 2008d). The provision of social security in many countries, however, shrank as markets were deregulated and the role of the State was cut back. The frequency of financial crises drew attention, however, to the need for more broad-based social protection measures.