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26 November 2021 | Social Inclusion
Films are a powerful way to raise awareness, improve understanding and encourage action so that this festival aims to contribute to health promotion and education about health.
The WHO Health for All Film Festival invites independent filmmakers,…
16 September 2021 | Social Inclusion
The International Labor Organization has published the 2021-2022 World Social Protection Report, which details the effects of COVID-19 on not just people’s health but instabilities in employment and income.
The pandemic has only revealed the…
14 September 2021 | Social Inclusion
Celebrating the UN’s 75th anniversary last year, prompted major internal discussion about its future, and a new direction away from the post-World War Two consensus of its early days. These reflections have resulted in Our Common Agenda, a landmark…
03 August 2021 | Social Inclusion
Panel discussions exclusively made up of men, or ‘manels’ need to stop, says Valerie Julliand, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Indonesia. Ms. Julliand has taken steps to promote gender parity by pledging that the UN will only participate…
21 July 2021 | Social Inclusion
Although spending on science has risen worldwide, greater investment is needed in the face of growing crises, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recommended in a new report published on Friday.
The latest edition…
13 May 2021 | Social Inclusion
A good education is often seen as a route out of poverty, but many disadvantaged children are unable to finish school. In Thailand, a project involving the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, is linking academic…
28 April 2021 | Social Inclusion
The Economy of Wellbeing (EoW) is a holistic, multi-sectoral policy and governance orientation that places people and their wellbeing at the center of policy and decision-making. This Virtual Side Event aimed at widening the discussion on the EoW…
07 April 2021 | Social Inclusion
Club de Madrid and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung presented policy recommendations on Transforming Multilateralism for Social Justice and Inclusion at a CSocD59 side-event, where they were joined by representatives of the International Trade Union…
25 January 2021 | Social Inclusion
Those working from home, whose number has greatly increased due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, need better protection, says the International Labour Organization (ILO) in a new report. According to ILO estimates, prior to the COVID-19…
11 January 2021 | Social Inclusion
The UN75 initiative was launched by Secretary-General António Guterres, in January last year, to understand the global public’s hopes and fears for the future, as well as their expectations and ideas for international cooperation, and for the UN in…
06 November 2020 | Social Inclusion
“People want social and economic systems that work for everyone,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier this summer. “The response to the pandemic, and to the widespread discontent that preceded it, must be based on a New Social…
25 April 2020 | Poverty Eradication, Social Inclusion
Governments, together with social partners and other stakeholders, should use the COVID-19 crisis as a wake-up call to strengthen their social protection systems, says the International Labour Organization.
An analysis shows that countries that…