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On 11 December 2015, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held a high-level meeting on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development (WSSD). Speakers emphasized the importance of a human-centred approach to development, many citing examples of goals achieved through successful national policies, while others also mentioned growing challenges to progress.
Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly, said that at the 1995 Summit in his nation’s capital, Member States had adopted the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action to advance social development through 10 commitments ranging from poverty eradication and reduction of inequality to promotion of human rights-based social integration. The recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development enveloped three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and cultural – with poverty eradication still remaining at the very core.
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Source: UNDESA-DSPD