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The Division for Inclusive Social Development of UN DESA organized Expert Group Meeting and consultations with stakeholders concerning the preparations for the IYF+30.
International Expert Group Meetings in preparation for the IYF+30
- 2024 - Expert Group Meeting on "Families and Climate Change"
- 2022 - Expert Group Meeting on “Megatrends and Families: Focus on Digital Technologies, Migration and Urbanization”
- 2020 - Expert Group Meeting on “Families in Development: Focus on Modalities for IYF+30, Parenting Education and the Impact of COVID-19”
Regional Expert Group Meetings
Africa
Asia
- 2024 - Families and Megatrends: Interlinkages between Migration, Urbanization, New Technologies, Demographic Trends and Climate Change in Asia
- 2023 - Expert Group Meeting on Demographic Change & Ageing of Population in Asia
Europe and North America
- 2023 – Population ageing and family well-being in Europe
- 2023 Megatrends & Families: Focus On Demographic Change, Migration And Urbanization In North America
Latin America
- 2024 - Parenting/Care, Family-Work Balance, and Family Policies
- 2023 - Megatrends & Families: Focus on Demographic Changes in Latin America
Oceania
Subregional Meetings
Thirtieth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family (IYF+30)
- Resolutions
- General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family A/RES/78/176
English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语 - General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family A/RES/77/191
English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语 - General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family – A/RES/76/139
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- General Assembly resolution on the Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family A/RES/78/176
- Technological changes
- The report of the Secretary-General A/77/61-E/2022/4 presents analysis of the impact of new technologies on families & current preparations for the IYF+30
- “Technology Use and Families: Implications for Work-family Balance and Parenting Education” by Susan K. Walker, Associate Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.
- Migration and urbanization
- The report of the Secretary-General A/78/61-E/2023/7 Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family focuses on the analysis of urbanization and migration trends and their impact on families.
- “Migration, Urbanization, and the Family Dimension” by Bahira Sherif Trask, Professor & Chair, Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Delaware
- UN DESA Policy Brief No. 133: Migration Trends and Families
- UN Chronicle – Urbanization and Families
- Demographic trends
- The report of the Secretary-General A/79/61-E/2024/48 Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family focuses on the analysis of demographic trends and their impact on families.
- “The Impact of Demographic Change on Families” by Zitha Mokomane, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Changing Demographics can Result in Strengthening Families” - Generations United Symposium
Report of the Symposium with Recommendations | Agenda/Bionotes of Participants/Papers
- Climate change
- The report of the Secretary-General A/80/61 Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family focuses on the impact of climate change on the well-being of families
- Background Paper on Climate Change and Families
- Home/Family & Climate Change
