The Commission for Social Development heard the views of nearly 20 non-governmental organizations on youth, the elderly, women and girls, persons with disabilities and family rights today as it concluded its general discussion on strategies for eradicating poverty to achieve sustainable development for all.
While the Copenhagen Declaration had helped countries make great strides in improving living conditions, the international community must now align its work with modern reality, speakers told the Commission on Social Development today, with some calling on the 40-member body to revise its work programme and end duplication.
Delegates spotlighted the obligation of Governments and international organizations to promote and protect the inalienable rights of the world’s 1 billion persons with disabilities today, as the Commission for Social Development entered the third day of its fifty-fifth annual session.
The fifty-fifth session of the Commission for Social Development continued today, with participants casting a spotlight on challenges faced by young people, and the perils of growing inequality, as Governments strove to put the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into action.
The Commission on Social Development — whose past work had been critical to the evolution of many principles underpinning the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — now had a critical role to play in that framework’s implementation, stressed delegates as they opened the Commission’s fifty-fifth annual session today.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, to the Commission for Social Development, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the Civil Society Forum held in conjunction with the United Nations Commission for Social Development, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the high-level side event on pathways to zero hunger, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Philippe Poinsot, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Mexico, to the meeting of the Parliamentary Social Justice Forum, held in Rabat from 19 to 20 February:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day of Social Justice, observed on 20 February:
