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Today, as the Commission for Social Development discussed priorities for transformative social development — as well as local innovations to realize them — much of the dialogue centred on the need to address informal labour.

The Commission for Social Development continued its sixty-fourth session today with a panel discussion on how resilient care and support systems can help eradicate poverty and safeguard dignity.

The Commission for Social Development continued its annual session today with a ministerial forum examining how national policies can translate commitments made in both Copenhagen and Doha into reality.

As global inequalities deepen, speakers opening the Commission for Social Development’s annual session said social development and social justice are central — far from secondary — concerns and called for coordinated action to translate commitments into tangible change.

The Commission for Social Development, acting by consensus on the final day of its sixty-second session, approved and forwarded three resolutions and one draft decision to the Economic and Social Council for adoption — including one on recognizing and valuing the unacknowledged, unpaid work of caregivers.

The international community’s multiple and simultaneous crises can be summarized as “inequality”, requiring a redoubling of efforts to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially in States that are struggling, delegates told the Commission for Social Development today as it concluded its general discussion.

The social and the economic are inseparable aspects of development, the Commission for Social Development heard today from both senior United Nations officials as well as civil society representatives, as it continued its sixty-second session.

Rapid technological changes, urbanization, demographic shifts and climate change have impacted families in profound ways, a senior United Nations official told the Commission for Social Development today during a panel discussion marking 30 years since the General Assembly established the International Year of the Family.

Investing in children is costly but not investing is even more expensive, the Commission for Social Development heard today as it continued its sixty-second session.

​​​​​​​The Commission for Social Development, acting by consensus on the final day of its sixty-first session, decided to forward four draft resolutions to the Economic and Social Council for adoption — including one focused on creating full employment and decent work for all to overcome inequalities and accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.