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SOC/4912

Social Development Commission Concludes Sixty-First Session, Recommending Four Draft Resolutions to Economic and Social Council for Adoption

​​​​​​​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.

SOC/4909

Urgent Action Needed to Close Inequality Gaps, Recover from Pandemic, Labour Crises, Speakers Stress, as Social Development Commission Session Continues

​​​​​​​Calling attention to widening inequality gaps and crises in the labour market exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, both United Nations senior officials and speakers alike stressed in an interactive dialogue that urgent action was needed to generate decent work and support recovery and social protection programmes, as the Commission for Social Development’s sixty-first session continued today.

SOC/4908

International Community Must Strengthen Commitments to Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing, Speakers Tell Social Development Commission, as Session Continues

​​​​​​​To fully realize the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the international community must intensify and strengthen its commitments to the well-being and rights of older persons, a senior United Nations official told the Commission for Social Development today during its high-level panel discussion on the Plan’s fourth review and appraisal.

SOC/4907

Ministerial Forum Speakers Call for Solidarity, Targeted Action to Tackle Pandemic Recovery, Rising Inequalities, as Social Development Commission Session Continues

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Stronger cooperation, solidarity between nations, targeted action and a human-rights-based approach are essential to not only recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, but necessary to tackle rising inequality, ministers and senior Government officials stressed today, as the Commission for Social Development continued its sixty-first session.

SOC/4906

Decent Work Reduces Inequalities, Protects Vulnerable Groups in Global Crises, Speakers Stress, as Commission for Social Development Opens Session

With the pandemic, climate crisis and geopolitical conflicts exacerbating inequalities in access to health, education and jobs, countries must create productive employment and decent work and ensure the social protection of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, speakers emphasized today, as the Commission for Social Development opened its sixty-first session.