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6th February 2024, CSocD62 Virtual Side Event organized by the International Movement ATD Fourth World.
United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has stated, “Halfway to the deadline for the 2030 Agenda... we are leaving more than half the world behind.”
Fifty percent of progress on the Goals is considered insufficient, while thirty percent of progress has regressed. Globally, 453 million people who wanted to work in 2022 could not find employment. At the end of 2022, 1.6 billion people lived in inadequate housing. At the same time, restrictive austerity measures are dismantling social protection, increasing inequality, and pushing people deeper into poverty. Currently, an estimated one in six people globally experience gender, ethnic, religious, or age-based discrimination. Discrimination based on socioeconomic standing, or povertyism, is not currently measured.
As the world leaders strive to achieve the 2030 Agenda, people in deep and extreme poverty have yet to obtain the most basic of necessities; housing, equitable employment, social protection, and freedom from institutional discrimination. To undo longstanding structural inequities, change minds about who matters, and reinvasion the role of government, we must recognize the inherent rights and dignity of all in order to create an equitable society.
This panel discusses social policy best practices, through a national and international lens, that contributes to social justice, reduced inequalities, and systemic exclusion, while focusing on structural solutions that change narratives and reduce poverty. Panelists provide a social justice framework to advance equitable social policies and actions to be taken.
For more information about the 62nd Commission for Social Development (CSocD62), please visit: https://social.desa.un.org/csocd/62nd
Source: International Movement ATD Fourth World