"SOCIAL POLICY"

In a world characterized by nationalism, power competition, and inequality “we face need for global solutions, and global solutions must be multilateral,” the President of the Club de Madrid, Danilo Türk, told journalists in New York. UNIFEED

Following the announcement of the creation of a new Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for a Just Transition, which aims to create at least 400 million jobs by 2030, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena said, “there is growing inequalities and asymmetries between the developed and developing countries in terms of vaccines, of wealth, of financing, and we are confronting a divergent recovery” from the COVID 19 pandemic. UNIFEED

High-level political forum considers findings, recommendations from regional commissions on progress, frameworks for achieving sustainable development.

High-level political forum considers findings, recommendations from regional commissions on progress, frameworks for achieving sustainable development.

Hybrid press briefing by Dr. Sania Nishtar, Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation of Pakistan to brief on the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as the current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either the socioeconomic or the environmental Goals of this Agenda, according to a new UN report issued on Thursday. UNIFEED

The President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Munir Akram, said that as the COVID-19 pandemic toll rises, “the poorest countries and the poorest people in those countries have been hit hardest." He stressed that “we must ensure that this vaccine becomes available to everyone, everywhere, rich or poor, man or woman.” UNIFEED

Informal High-level Meeting of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council to commemorate the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development (WSSD + 25).

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing countries, and recovery will only be sustained and future crises prevented if they can transform their ad hoc crisis response measures into comprehensive social protection systems, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). ILO

The IMFC, the IMF’s governing body, underscored the importance of the Fund in fighting the economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At a virtual press briefing today during the Spring Meetings 2020, Lesetja Kganyago, Chair of the IMFC, emphasized that an aggressive response is absolutely necessary. IMF