We are pleased to invite you to the event entitled “Strategy Meeting Towards the Second World Social Summit for Social Development”. The event will take place at the UN Church Center, on Monday, 23 September from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT.
The objective of this session is to create a collective work agenda to fill the existing social dimension gap, through the review of the good and not so good done since Copenhagen, and the addressing of the challenges the social world faces nowadays.
This panel will offer a framing of the strategic work, recalling the resultsachieved during the World Summit for Social Development in 1995, characterising the current situation, and outlining the main challenges we face towards the future.
The spirit, aftermaths and challenges of the Copenhagen Summit and theworld’s current context.
Moderator: Sameh Kamel, Representative of Major Group of Children and Youth (MGCY OP).
Speakers: Barbara Adams (Global Policy Forum), Paul Divakar (Inclusivity Project; Operating Partner of the Stakeholder group of Communities Discriminated Against through Work and Descent of MGoS), Cecilia Schirmeister (Chair of the WSS Subcommittee), Kostas Iatridis (Trustee- Zovu/ Associate Professor University of Bath, UK), Magdalena Sepúlveda/Valentina Contreras (GI-ESCR)
1. Paper Presentation: The strategic pillars towards the World Social SummitThis session will take place on Monday, 23 September from 11 am to 12:30 pm EDT at the UN Church Centre.
This session will be held at the Global People's Assembly 2024. The programme of the GPA 2024 is here.
The Second World Summit for Social Development will bring together Heads of State or Government in Qatar in November 2025. The Summit will adopt a concise, action-oriented political document with a social development approach that will galvanize implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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