Commission for Social Development

Forty-fifth Session

8^th & 9^th Meetings (AM & PM)

COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOCUSES ON VULNERABLE GROUPS AS IT

CONSIDERS SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHICS, INTER-GENERATIONAL TRENDS

 

Commission for Social Development

Forty-fifth Session

6^th & 7^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Social Development Commission Hears Government, Civil Society Views

On Innovations in Employment Creation

 

Poverty Alleviation, Youth Unemployment,

Commission for Social Development

Forty-fifth Session

4^th & 5^th Meetings (AM & PM)

SPEAKERS IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CALL FOR COORDINATED,

GLOBAL STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE FULL EMPLOYMENT, DECENT WORK

 

Commission for Social Development

Forty-fifth Session

2^nd & 3^rd Meetings* (AM & PM)

Commission for social development opens current session

 

with focus on promoting full employment

 

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 7-16 FEBRUARY, TO ADDRESS

EMPLOYMENT, AGEING, DISABILITY, YOUTH

 

Youth Employment Emerging Issue on Commission Agenda

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention

on Persons with Disabilities

21^st Meeting (AM & PM)

AD HOC COMMITTEE REACHES AGREEMENT ON TREATY PROTECTING, PROMOTING

RIGHTS, DIGNITY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

 

Ad Hoc Committee on Convention

on Persons with Disabilities

20^th Meeting (PM)

Ad Hoc Committee Agrees on New UN Convention to protect disabled persons’ rights

Text to Be Sent for Approval to General Assembly Session Beginning in September

(Issued on 28 August 2006.)

DISABILITY CONVENTION COMMITTEE STRUGGLES TO CONCLUDE TREATY

The General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee finalizing the first Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today spent most of the morning in informal consultations, trying to resolve some of the most controversial issues.

DISABILITY CONVENTION committee NEGOTIATIONS STRUGGLE

 

TO ADDRESS CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLES

 

General Assembly committee drafting disability convention encounters difficulties

The General Assembly Committee drafting the first-ever Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was facing a number of difficulties today, as delegations began to tackle some of the most controversial issues.