通往2025年第二届世界社会发展首脑会议的参与机会

organize outreach activities and share research insights emphasizing the critical role of care in achieving social development. These efforts will contribute to the WSSD by promoting dialogue and action on genderinclusive policies for sustainable progress.

The purpose of this Ad-hoc group is to promote the establishment of favorable conditions for digital empowerment, freedom of expression, media development, access to information and language technology, alongside artistic creation in indigenous languages.

Online expert group meetings have been carried out in the Africa, Asia, LAC regions and Nordic countries reaching over 80 experts to identify regional priorities and perspectives.  A brief for each consultation has been developed and disseminated widely to inform the WSSD consultations. Link to video broadcasts insights shared at the 63rd session of the Commission for Social Development in February 2025.

Regional seminar to discuss poverty, hunger and inequality issues in LAC to be considered for the Summit discussion. Two special sessions are scheduled for high level discussions among representatives of groups on countries and among DESA and the RC Executive Secretaries.

Organized by ESCWA and UNRISD, the meeting will bring together a wide range of stakeholders such as experts, activists, researchers, and academics to present Arab perspectives on inclusive development, justice, poverty eradication, decent work, climate adaptation, digital transformations, social contract renewal, and other pressing development issues. The outcomes of this dialogue will contribute to the Summit through a policy brief summarizing regional insights and proposals, in line with similar consultations in other world regions.

On the sidelines of the 51st Session of the Arab Labour Conference, convened by the Arab Labour Organization (ALO) in Cairo, the ILO and the ALO hosted a discussion on WSSD2 that brought together over 100 government, employer and worker representatives from the Arab region, including the Ministers of Labour of Qatar, Lebanon, Tunisia, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Yemen. The discussion, held under the patronage of the State of Qatar and in collaboration with the Executive Bureau of Councils of the Ministers of Labor and Ministers of Social Affairs in the countries of cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf, aimed to ensure that the Arab region plays a strong and substantive role in shaping the global social development agenda. The session focused on Arab States’s contribution to shaping a new global social contract grounded in social justice. 

In the context of the Sustainable Development Forum of LAC, this panel is proposed as a moment to share the views and proposals from LAC countries, represented by Chile and Brazil (current and upcoming Presidents of the RCSDLAC) with the DSG Amina Mohammed and the USG Li Junhua, and the ECLAC Executive Secretary, Jose Manuel Salazar Xirinachs.

The purpose of this Ad-hoc group is to promote the establishment of favorable conditions for digital empowerment, freedom of expression, media development, access to information and language technology, alongside artistic creation in indigenous languages.

A broadcast Copenhagen+30 commemoration scheduled. The soft launch will be available on-demand on UN Web TV (pre-recorded) and an in-person event is tentatively scheduled for the end of April.
Over the past 30 years, the world has made significant strides in reducing extreme poverty, and average levels of wellbeing have reached historical highs. Still, progress has been uneven, and people are feeling increasingly insecure. There is a growing rift between people’s needs and the policies in place. As a result, many people feel left behind and do not see the system working for them.

The objective of the meeting is to discuss the final draft of the countries' report sharing views and proposals from social development ministries of the region , which will be presented to the World Summit for Social Development.

World Social Work Day at the UN in Geneva 2025 aims to make a contribution to the Second World Summit for Social Development exploring pathways to expand social rights for persons living with disabilities and to create a caring society. Globally, an estimated 1.3 billion people experience disabilities (WHO 2023), a situation that is further exacerbated for people exposed to multiple marginalizations based on class, gender and sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity or religion, migrant or employment status or location.
Engaging with networks of social workers to raise awareness about the WSSD2 and address challenges for persons with disabilities.

Organized by the Executive Bureau of the Council of Ministers of Labor and Social Affairs of the GCC States in cooperation with ESCWA. Meeting among representatives from ministries of labour, social development and foreign affairs of the GCC countries to discuss the Food for Thought paper.

The forthcoming policy brief will include a conceptual discussion and policy proposals on inclusive social development, prepared by ECLAC to feed the views and discussions of the Summit (internal discussions)

This joint document of the five regional commissions will serve as an input for the preparatory process of the Second World Summit for Social Development 2025. The joint document underscores the need to strengthen social policies and tailor them to a risk structure reconfigured by global crises. Alongside high levels of poverty, inequality and informal employment, profound transformations in demographics, climate, technology and the labour market are under way. Complementary actions beyond social policy are also needed, as progress is equally crucial in the economic and environmental dimensions. Regional frameworks and agreements have been instrumental in driving social policy change and must continue to be leveraged, including in the universalization of social protection systems and in the areas of migration, labour inclusion, taxation and resource management, to achieve shared growth and stability.

This report is under preparation by the Presiding Officers countries of the Conference and ECLAC to facilitate the discussions and articulate their messages and proposals to the Summit.