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| Sport for Development and Peace
Empowering Communities Through Sport: CSocD63 UN Side Event Highlights Martial Arts as Catalyst for Sustainable Development
New York, February 14, 2024 — The webinar “Empowering Communities Through Sport: Real Voices, Real Change” brought…
| Social Inclusion
At CSocD63, the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations hosted the event UN Youth Delegates and Representatives Breakfast: Accelerating Action on Social Justice. The event aimed to encourage youth delegates to brainstorm ways in which…
| Innovation & Technology
At the 63rd Commission of Social Development (CSocD63), the UN DESA Programmes on Youth and Ageing hosted the event Bridging the Intergenerational Equity Gap: Discussing Inequality in AI Access, Use, and Benefits. The discussion focused on…
| Social Inclusion
On 11 February 2025, key stakeholders convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the side event “From Copenhagen to Doha: Advancing the Global Social Development Agenda”, held on the margins of the 63rd Session of the Commission for…
| Social Inclusion
On 10 February, the International Labour Organization (ILO) hosted the side event Tripartite Solutions for Social Justice: Pathway to the World Social Summit/Second World Summit on Social Development at CSocD63.
Moderator, Ms. Laura…
| Youth
Language is one of the distinctive features that makes us human, and a new book supported by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) aims to encourage children to reflect on its importance.
What Makes Us Human…
| Social Inclusion
The 2025 Civil Society Forum, hosted at CSocD63, aimed to integrate grassroots voices, encourage intergenerational collaboration, and strengthen civil society’s role in shaping the global social development agenda. The speakers focused on the…
| Ageing
At the 63rd Commission of Social Development, the Permanent Mission of Spain hosted the event ‘Social development in ageing societies: advancing in deinstitutionalization of care from a person-centered approach.’ The event focused on the need for…
| Social Inclusion
The CSocD63 side event, Towards the World Summit for Social Development: Economy of Wellbeing Approach and Social Justice as Investments for Future Generations, was hosted by the Permanent Missions of Finland and South Africa, the UN Research…
| Poverty Eradication
The NGO Working Group to End Homelessness, in collaboration with various civil society partners, hosted the event “Centering Homelessness in Light of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Achieving Agenda 2030” at CSocD63. Opening…
| Social Inclusion
On 13 February, the International Association of Schools of Social Work with the NGO Committee for Social Development hosted the side event, “Building a Collective Future: Grassroots Voices on Emerging Priorities for the Second World Social Summit”…
| Social Inclusion
On 10 February 2025, the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the International Labour Organization (ILO) hosted the side event ‘Realizing the right to…