Some reflections on the 2nd World Summit for Social Development

Panelists at the session on Rethinking Pre-Distribution and Fiscal Policies to Advance Social Justice, organised by UNRISD, International Budget Partnership, the Foundation for European Progress, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, WECF and many others.  More ideas.

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Some reflections on the 2nd World Summit for Social Development

The commitments made at the Doha Summit for Social Development  … Approximately 40 heads of state and government, around 200 ministers and officials, and approximately 8,000 representatives from civil society and the business world gathered in Doha during the week of November 3 for the Second World Summit for Social Development. The assembled governments agreed…

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Der Weltsozialgipfel in Doha

Die Zusagen des Doha- Gipfels für soziale Entwicklung …   Circa 40 Staats- und Regierungsoberhäupter, an die 200 Minister:Innen und Beamt:Innen und circa 8000 Vertreter:innen aus Zivilgesellschaft und  Businesswelt kamen in der Woche vom 3. November in Doha zum 2. Weltsozialgipfel für soziale Entwicklung zusammen. Die versammelten Regierungen einigten sich in einer moralisch-verpflichtenden – aber…

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Zurück aus Doha

Hier einige Überlegungen zum 2. Weltsozialgipfel der Vereinten Nationen.

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World Summit on Social Development

Greetings from the World Summit on Social Development. Social protection and the right to care getting good traction. Discussion piece

Why Care About Care?

This contribution is published as part of the UNRISD Think Piece Series Beyond Copenhagen: Rethinking Social Development for the 21st Century, which supports UNRISD’s efforts to shape the agenda of the upcoming Summit in Qatar in November 2025. This series brings together experts from academia, advocacy and policy practice to critically explore the achievements and…

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UN social summits as Global Social Policy?

In 2025, multilateralism is under great pressure. Many United Nations (UN) member states violate the binding principles of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, often only superficially commit to non-binding declarations such as the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development or the Paris Agreement, and are delaying or even cutting funding…

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Just out

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14680181251394501

Talks on a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.

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The 2nd World Summit for Social Development

Global society is riven by deep inequalities – political, social, economic, ecological, technological. The inequalities are deepened by produced divisions around economic and political status, genders, ethnicity, indigeneity, caste, faith, and location, to name just a few. There are more simultaneous deadly aggressions in the form of international and civil wars, and persistent persecution of…

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