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Social issues

SOC/4437

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION DISCUSSES PROPOSALS FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION ON OLDER PERSONS

13 February 1998


Press Release
SOC/4437


SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION DISCUSSES PROPOSALS FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION ON OLDER PERSONS

19980213

Speakers called for the development of a database on the ageing to house demographic data, as well as information on national policies and programmes, as the Commission for Social Development this morning took up the Secretary- General's report on options for future monitoring of the 1982 International Action Plan on Ageing.

SOC/4434

SPEAKERS CALL FOR CONCRETE STEPS TO PROTECT SOCIETY'S MOST VULNERABLE GROUPS, AS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES DISCUSSING SOCIAL INTEGRATION

11 February 1998


Press Release
SOC/4434


SPEAKERS CALL FOR CONCRETE STEPS TO PROTECT SOCIETY'S MOST VULNERABLE GROUPS, AS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONTINUES DISCUSSING SOCIAL INTEGRATION

19980211

The Commission for Social Development should call on governments to take concrete steps to protect society's most vulnerable groups, speakers said this afternoon as the Commission continued general discussions on social integration through responsive government and broadening participation.

SOC/4424

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIFTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

7 March 1997


Press Release
SOC/4424


SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION CONCLUDES THIRTY-FIFTH SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

19970307

Concluding its thirty-fifth session yesterday night, 6 March, the Commission for Social Development called on countries and the international community to reinstate the attainment of full, productive and freely chosen employment as a central objective of economic and social policies.