The recording of the event “Strategy Meeting Towards the Second World Social Summit for Social Development” is now online. The event was held at the Global People's Assembly 2024 on Monday, 23 September.
The objective of this session was 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 offered 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 the world’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)
This session took place on Monday, 23 September from 11 am to 12:30 pm EDT at the UN Church Centre.
This session was 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.
Further information is available here.
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