Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Social issues

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Coherent Universal Policies Needed to Help People Take Charge of Future, Speakers Stress as Commission for Social Development Opens Fifty-second Session

Amid weak economic recovery, rapidly ageing populations and the continuing effects of unemployment on millions of people worldwide, the United Nations and its partners must put forward coherent universal policies that would empower people to take charge of their future and develop greater resilience to external shocks, delegates said today as the Commission for Social Development opened its fifty-second regular session.

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Commission for Social Development Discusses Ways to Ensure Greater Relevance in Engaging with Economic and Social Council, Wider United Nations System

Meeting briefly today, the Commission for Social Development took up a number of issues that would set the tone for its upcoming work and, more broadly, allow it to engage in more relevant ways within the United Nations system, especially the Economic and Social Council, whose principal role in the follow-up to major United Nations meetings was elevated by the landmark 2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development.
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Speakers Urge Rapid Action to Stimulate Job Creation, Give Excluded Groups Voice, as Commission for Social Development Continues Session

With an estimated 75 million young people out of work around the world — nearly one in four in some parts — rapid action was needed to stimulate job creation, give young people and other excluded groups a voice in decision-making and institute schemes for social protection floors, the Commission for Social Development heard today as it continued its fifty-first session.
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High-level Meeting Will Provide Historic Opportunity to Empower Persons with Disabilities, Commission for Social Development Told

The High-level General Assembly Meeting on Disability and Development — to be held in September — would provide an historic opportunity to chart the way towards a truly inclusive development agenda while empowering the world’s 1 billion disabled persons as both agents and beneficiaries of change, the Commission for Social Development heard today as it moved into week two of its fifty-first session.
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Economic Growth Alone Insufficient to Ensure Equality, Sustained Prosperity, Panel Discussion Moderator Tells Commission for Social Development

Faced with expanding inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, world leaders poised to devise a new development agenda for the post-2015 era should embark upon a “new discussion” about the often-neglected social dimension of sustainable development, speakers urged today as the Commission for Social Development continued its fifty-first session.
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Commission for Social Development to Focus on Empowering Poorest, Most Vulnerable as Headquarters Hosts Fifty-first Session, 6-15 February

Giving the poorest and most vulnerable the voice and tools needed to lift themselves out of poverty is key to bolstering efforts towards and beyond the achievement of global development goals, according to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s latest report on promoting people’s empowerment, the priority theme of the Commission on Social Development’s fifty-first session when it meets from 6 to 15 February at United Nations Headquarters.