Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Economic and Social Council: Meetings Coverage

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Policies, Cooperation in Response to Global Economic Crisis ‘Inadequate’, Assistant Secretary General Tells Social Development Commission

The policy responses to the global financial crisis had been inadequate and characterized by double standards, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, told the Commission on Social Development as it began its discussion of policy responses on employment and the social consequences of the financial and economic crises, including its gender dimension.
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Speakers Highlight National Steps Taken to Promote ‘Social Integration’ in Face of Economic Crisis, as Social Development Commission Concludes General Debate

The economic slowdown had weakened the world’s social safety net, but delegates of countries from Nicaragua to Kenya, speaking during the Commission for Social Development’s forty-eighth session today, reported some progress in improving the socio-economic situation of their most vulnerable and marginalized citizens thanks to a range of social integration programmes.
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Social Development Commission Panel Considers Priority Theme – Social Integration; Speakers Examine Obstacles to Policies Aimed at Achieving ‘Society for All’

During a high-level panel on social integration that opened the session’s second day, delegations in the Commission on Social Development today wrestled with finding reasons why many social integration policies were inadequate, with many agreeing they had been developed on a piecemeal basis, and fashioned into solutions seldom accompanied by implementation and evaluation frameworks.
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Since 1995 Progress Made Promoting Inclusion of Marginalized Groups, but Challenges to Social Development Remain ‘Daunting’, Under-Secretary-General Tells Commission

Since world leaders met in Copenhagen in 1995 to adopt a declaration and action programme for social change, encouraging progress had been made in promoting the inclusion of socially marginalized groups, but “daunting” challenges remained in reaching broader social development goals, Sha Zukang, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said today, as the Commission for Social Development opened its forty-eighth session.