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UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
The present report, which is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 75/153, contains information on the preparations for the observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2024 and an analysis of the impact of new technologies on families. The report is also focused on the potential of digital technologies to help to enable the achievement of work-family balance and on the role of such technologies in promoting and facilitating parenting education.
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
Social Development Briefs |
Income inequality levels and trends vary greatly by country and depending on the indicator used. In its Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2016, the World Bank finds that income inequality within countries somewhat declined between the late 1990s and 2013 (World Bank, 2016). In contrast, the World Inequality Lab states that income inequality has increased in most countries in recent decades (World Inequality Lab, 2017). How can these two leading sources of information reach such different conclusions?
Read our Social Development Brief on “Income inequality trends: the choice of indicators matters”
UN General Assembly Reports on Social Development |
Flagship Reports |
On 13 September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The adoption of the Declaration marked the culmination of decades of struggle among indigenous peoples for a universal framework establishing minimum standards to ensure the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.
Over a period of more than 20 years, indigenous peoples and Member States worked together to draft the Declaration, setting a precedent for cooperation and partnership between indigenous peoples and Member States. This collaboration has become an established practice and captures the principle of nothing about us…
UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development |
UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development |