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Oportunidades de participación en el camino hacia la Segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre el Desarrollo Social 2025
La Segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre el Desarrollo Social ofrece una amplia gama de oportunidades de participación para personas y organizaciones que deseen contribuir al debate global y a la innovación. Los participantes podrán involucrarse en mesas redondas estimulantes, talleres interactivos y sesiones de creación de redes diseñadas para fomentar la colaboración entre diversos sectores. La cumbre también brinda espacios para presentar proyectos e investigaciones innovadoras, sirviendo como plataforma para que líderes de pensamiento compartan conocimientos e impulsen un cambio significativo. Se alienta a los asistentes a participar activamente, aprovechando estas oportunidades para ampliar sus redes profesionales, obtener nuevas perspectivas y desempeñar un papel clave en la configuración del futuro de las iniciativas globales.
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Second World Social Summit for Development
Host side events and stakeholder discussions
International Day for Care and Support
organize outreach activities and share research insights emphasizing the critical role of care in achieving social development. These efforts will contribute to the WSSD by promoting dialogue and action on genderinclusive policies for sustainable progress.
1st Connect for Change Global Youth Forum
Conference and music concerts towards sustainable development.
80th Session of General Assembly
Organise or co-convene side events
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
Side-event
Organize a side event addressing women’s pathways to social development
Online expert group meetings have been carried out in the Africa, Asia, LAC regions and Nordic countries reaching over 80 experts to identify regional priorities and perspectives. A brief for each consultation has been developed and disseminated widely to inform the WSSD consultations. Link to video broadcasts insights shared at the 63rd session of the Commission for Social Development in February 2025.
UNRISD to organize or co-convene side events to foster dialogue among thought leaders, policymakers, and activists. The event(s) will serve as a platform to highlight research findings and actionable recommendations stemming from UNRISD’s preparatory work.
Fourth International Financing for Development Conference
The next Prep Com meeting held on 10 to 14 February. iii) advocacy and stakeholder engagement iv) link between financing for development, role of international cooperation, financial reform and sustainable development crucial for WSSD2.
UNRISD will participate in promoting regional social development challenges.
Participation in support of the Global Coalition for Social Justice
Side-event
World Social Work Day at the UN in Geneva 2025 aims to make a contribution to the Second World Summit for Social Development exploring pathways to expand social rights for persons living with disabilities and to create a caring society. Globally, an estimated 1.3 billion people experience disabilities (WHO 2023), a situation that is further exacerbated for people exposed to multiple marginalizations based on class, gender and sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity or religion, migrant or employment status or location.
Engaging with networks of social workers to raise awareness about the WSSD2 and address challenges for persons with disabilities.
UNRISD to co-convene three side events to foster dialogue among thought leaders, policymakers, and activists. The topics are: financing care societies, gender backlash, climate change, and gender. The events will serve as a platform to highlight research findings and actionable recommendations stemming from UNRISD’s preparatory work on Gender-related issues.
International Women's Day
On Women’s Day, UNRISD will organize outreach activities and share research insights emphasizing the critical role of gender equality in achieving social development. These efforts will contribute to the WSSD by promoting dialogue and action on gender inclusive policies for sustainable progress.
The panel discussion will cover the challenges faced by workers in the informal economy to enjoy their rights to work and to social security, particularly in the context of the changing world of work due to new technologies and climate impact, exploring ways to improve their access to decent job opportunities and decent working conditions, to extend social security coverage to them, and to support transitions to the formal economy, based on the experiences of States, civil society, including trade unions and professional associations, relevant United Nations agencies and other stakeholders; Panel will also discuss the effective ways for the workers in the informal economy to have their concerns heard and to meaningfully participate in the development of legislation and policies relating to their rights to work and social security.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will prepare a summary note on the discussion, which will inform an analytical report on the realization of the rights to work and to social security in the informal economy, based on the panel discussion, and to be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its sixtieth session.