Social issues

21 May 1996

Press Release
SOC/4391

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT BEGINS SPECIAL SESSION

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The Commission for Social Development must decide how best the decisions of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development should be implemented and the mechanism for doing so, the Under Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, Nitin Desai, said this morning as the Commission began an eight-day special session.

17 May 1996

Press Release
SOC/4390

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO HOLD SPECIAL SESSION IN NEW YORK, 21-30 MAY

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The Commission for Social Development, the body with the central role in the follow-up to the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, will hold an eight-day special session at Headquarters beginning on 21 May to review its mandate, terms of reference and scope of work, and to elaborate its multi-year programme of activity to the year 2000.

18 December 1995

Press Release
SOC/4388

SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR POVERTY ERADICATION WITH CALL FOR STRATEGIES, TARGET DATES FOR ACHIEVING GOAL

19951218 Assembly President Says International Community Must Understand Need and Possibility to Reduce Poverty, Eliminate Its Misery

15 December 1995

Press Release
SOC/4387
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