Commission for Social Development (CSD)
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7 February 07
Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran and Chairperson of the Commission for Social Development and Ms. Marion Williams, Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados brief journalists on the occasion of the 45th session of the Commission for Social Development.
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The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
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19 April 07
Special Event: NGO Briefing - Indigenous Peoples' Lands, Territories, Natural Resources: Livelihoods and Emerging Issues.
[Webcast: Video - English: 1 hour and 50 minutes] |
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14 May 07
Special Event: Opening of the Sixth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) .
[Webcast: Video - English: 1 hour and 55 minutes]
[Webcast: Video - Original Language: 1 hour and 55 minutes] |
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9 August 07
Special Event: Panel discussion on "Honoring Indigenous Youth and Languages". Speakers will include: H.E. Mr. Alberto Virella, Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations and Ms. Dawn Hill (Mohawk Nation, USA).
[Webcast: Video - English: 2 hours and 16 minutes] |
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6 September 07
Press Conference: Les Malezer, Chairperson of the Global Indigenous Caucus; Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; and Joseph Ole Simel, Coordinator of the African Regional Indigenous Caucus; to respond to the amendments proposed by Member-States to the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
[Webcast: Video - English: 41 minutes ]
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6 September 07
DPI/NGO Conference: 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All - Roundtable Session: "Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Traditional Knowledge".
[Webcast: Video - English: 1 hour and 24 minutes ]
[Webcast: Video - Original Language: 1 hour and 24 minutes ]
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13 September 07
Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Ms. Victoria Taulicorpuz, on the adoption of the Report of the Human Rights Council.
[Webcast: Video - 5 minutes ]
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13 September 07
Vote for indigenous peoples: Landmark declaration adopted: On 13 September, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. A non-binding text, the Declaration sets out individual and collective rights to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education, and other issues.
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
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30 March 07
Signing of the new UN convention on the rights of disabled persons
H.E. Mr. Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, President of the National Council to prevent discrimination in Mexico, addresses the signing ceremony of the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which aims to secure the rights of some 650 million persons with disabilities around the world. Eighty-one countries and the European Community participated, the most for the opening of any treaty. The event, held in the UN General Assembly Hall, at UN Headquarters in New York on 30 March, was also attended by over 350 representatives of disability organizations from around the world, who were instrumental in the negotiation of the agreement. Jamaica acted quickly to ratify the Convention, the first to go beyond endorsement and adopt it as law. The pact needs nineteen more States Parties to enter into force.
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20 September 07
Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guest at noon: Annebeth Rosenboom, Chief of the Treaty Section, Office of Legal Affairs (OLA); Thomas Schindlmayr from the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and Christine Brautigam, Chief of the Women's Rights Section, Division for the Advancement of Women, to brief on the upcoming Focus 2007 Treaty Event.
[Webcast: Video - 57 minutes ]
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14 November
General Assembly: 44th meeting of Third Committee - 1. Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. 2. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
[Webcast: Video - English: 2 hours and 40 minutes ] |
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3 December 07
Press Conference: Chris Sullivan, Vice President of Merrill Lynch and Judy Young, Vice President of the National Business and Disability Council, to brief on dispelling the myth that persons with disabilities are unable to work.
[Webcast: Video - 22 minutes ] |
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The 2007 Report on the World Social Situation (RWSS)
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28 November 07
The employment imperative: Job creation has not kept pace with economic growth
The 2007 Report on the World Social Situation was launched on 28 November. According to Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, employment and decent work need to be seen as central objectives of development strategies, and not as by-products of economic policy. Workers with low education and low skills have been hit particularly hard.
[ Video - 28 minutes ]
[ Audio Summary - 1 minute ] |
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The 2007 World Youth Report (WYR)
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18 December 07
Press Conference: Johan Scholvink, Director of the Division of Social Policy and Development at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, to hold a press conference to launch the latest World Youth Report, entitled "Young People's Transition to Adulthood: Progress and Challenges".
[Webcast: Video - 10 minutes ] |
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9 August 07
Special Event: Ceremony to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
[Webcast: Video - English: 1 hour and 8 minutes] |
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4 October 07
NGO/DPI: NGO Briefing - "Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities of Ageing: Empowering Older Persons" in observance of the International Day of Older Persons (1 October).
[Webcast: Video - PM Session English: 1 hour and 50 minutes] |
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11 October 07
Special Event: International Youth Day on 12 August 2007 - Ban Ki-Moon meets youth representatives. General Assembly urges member states for over 20 years to include youth representatives in their delegations. In 2007 youth representatives from about 20 countries are representing their country's young people's interest, are having speeches in the 3 rd Committee, are working on the youth resolution, are organizing side-events and are giving strong commitment to the Millennium Development Goals. Ban Ki-Moon supports the inclusion of youth representatives by having an appointment with them.
Speech by the Secretary-General
[Webcast: Video - English: 36 minutes] |
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17 October 07
Press Conference: Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert of France; Johan Scholvinck, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Kanokkarn Nakpassorn from the ATD (Aide à Toute Détresse) Fourth World Volunteer Corps; and Maria Barrerra from the Christian Children's Fund, on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 Oct).
[Webcast: Video - English: 40 minutes ] |
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17 October 07
Eradication of poverty: We must vigorously promote productive employment and decent work
17 October marked the 20th anniversary of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Speaking on behalf of Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang, Ms. Rachel Mayanja, Assistant Secretary-General, stressed that the path to poverty reduction is development, particularly the creation of productive employment and decent work. Winners of the International Children’s Art Competition on poverty eradication, ranging in age from six to fifteen, were presented with awards by Ms. Mayanja during the ceremony.
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[ UN Radio - 5 minute]
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18 October 07
Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guest at noon: Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Public Information; and Ms. Mandy Kibel, Deputy Director of Communications for the UN Millennium Campaign, to brief on the Stand Up Against Poverty 2007 campaign (17 Oct).
[Webcast: Video - 54 minutes ] |
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18 October 07
DPI/NGO: NGO Briefing - Linking Human Rights to Extreme Poverty in observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October).
[Webcast: Video - English: 1 hour and 26 minutes ] |
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Videos related to the work of the Division
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January 07
A webcast of the thematic informal debate on partnerships towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals is available.
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17 January 07
Economic and Social Council opens 2007 session
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's presence at the inaugural meeting of the 2007 Economic and Social Council on 17 January is seen as a strong signal of his commitment to the work of the United Nations in the economic and social areas in this time of change and renewal.
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9 February 07
Press Conference: Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaran, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and the economist Mr. Jacques Baudot brief on their new book: "Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality".
[Webcast: Video - English: 42 minutes ] |
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27 February
Confronting climate change: avoiding the unmanageable, managing the unavoidable
Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation and former United States senator, hosts a press conference on 27 February to introduce a report of the Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, prepared for the 15th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development. According to scientific leaders, the world is sixty percent of the way to the point where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts of climate change on human well-being rise rapidly.
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2 April 07
Special Event: Opening remarks of the informal event for the Council's 2007 Annual Ministerial Review (AMR), entitled "Eradicating poverty and hunger - joining forces to make it happen".
[Webcast: Video - English: 27 minutes]
[Webcast: Video - Original Language: 27 minutes] |
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30 April 07
Energy, industrial development, air pollution, and climate change: H.E. Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Minister of Energy and Industry of Qatar and Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development's 15th session, and Joanne DiSano, Director of the DESA Division for Sustainable Development, brief journalists on the issues at the opening of the session on 30 April.
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2 June 07
High-level dialogue on the state of the world economy
Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General of Economic and Social Affairs, moderates a discussion on international economic cooperation at the opening of the Economic and Social Council’s 2007 session in Geneva.
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31 July 07
Lack of progress on MDGs requires action
On 31 July, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom joined Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his call for action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. According to Mr. Brown, millions of lives are at stake in what amounts to a development emergency.
[ Video - 38 minutes]
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Articles and News related to the work of the Division
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Partners for action
The world, in one voice, committed itself at the dawn of the new millennium to ambitious goals: halving worldwide poverty by 2015, achieving universal education, promoting gender equality, and among others, creating a global partnership for development. Yet as we approach the mid-point of the implementation period, a glance at the state of goal eight – on partnerships – shows that finance and trade are relative weak spots in international development cooperation. The thematic informal debate on partnerships towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals held at the General Assembly in late November made one point clear: Failure to deliver on commitments in the areas of development assistance, debt relief, and, most importantly, access to export markets by developing countries may well compromise attainment of the targets for 2015.
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Human rights in the 21st century
More than two decades ago, under the auspices of the United Nations, disabled people set out to clear obstructions which have throughout history prevented them from enjoying the full benefit of economic and social development. This decades’ long effort culminated on 13 December 2006 in the adoption by the General Assembly of the Convention of on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention is being hailed as the first human rights instrument of the twenty-first century. Once ratified by individual countries, the treaty will enable the world’s 650 million disabled people to claim internationally-recognized rights as full and equal members of society.
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Decent employment, weapon against poverty
The idea that creating more and better jobs is the best way to eradicate poverty may sound like a platitude to the man on the street. For policy-makers, however, full and decent employment has long been the missing link in the economic growth and poverty reduction equation. World leaders reformulated this equation at the 2005 World Summit, agreeing to put employment back into the UN development agenda and at the heart of national and international policies. Indeed, with unemployment on the rise and the quality of jobs deteriorating, and with half the world’s workers earn less than a meager poverty line income of two dollars a day, addressing the employment dilemma is more pressing than ever.
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Functional commissions play their part in UN reform
This 2007 cycle of conferences on development policy begins with great anticipation as it marks the first time that the Economic and Social Council will hold an Annual Ministerial Substantive Review and Development Cooperation Forum. Both events are expected to transform the fundamental way in which the Council operates, giving the Council a highly-visible role in development monitoring, and an active part in the process of mobilizing support for international development cooperation.
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An ageing world poses new challenges for development strategists
The graying of industrialized countries resulting from declining birth rates and increased life expectancy has been making headlines for quite some time. Yet eyebrows were raised when DESA’s Population Division announced recently that nearly eighty percent of people aged sixty years or over are predicted to be living in developing nations by the year 2050.
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Deepening the intellectual foundations of economic and social affairs
Mr. José Antonio Ocampo leaves the helm of DESA at the end of June after almost four years of service. When Mr. Ocampo arrived in September 2003 to head the department, he brought with him years of experience as a scholar, Minister of Finance, Planning and Agriculture, and Executive Secretary of ECLAC. Among his main aspirations was to recover the department’s former capacity to lead the intellectual debate in economic and social issues.
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Mr. Sha Zukang has been appointed Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs effective 1 July. Before taking up his position as head of DESA, Mr. Sha was a career diplomat of the People’s Republic of China with substantial experience in multilateral negotiations in a wide range of fields, including trade, labour, human rights, health, arms control, intellectual property and telecommunications.
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Indigenous peoples at risk from river pollution
Experts search for ways to improve security of indigenous peoples in Eastern Russia.
The security of indigenous peoples is being jeopardized by pollution, as inhabitants of the Amur River basin in the Russia Federation can readily attest. Transborder contamination of the river over the last fifteen years has contributed to the spread of cancer and other tumors, claiming the lives of hundreds of indigenous peoples.
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The inclusive society
Some groups are systematically locked out of the benefits of development. They cannot escape from poverty as they are deprived of opportunities that are available to others, and have difficulty asserting their rights because of race, cast, disability, social status or other social identity. Creating an inclusive society means building communities based on social justice, and participation by all at all stages of decision-making.
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The cooperative advantage
Social concern can be good business strategy. For over 150 years, cooperatives have been demonstrating just this principle. Cooperatives employ a hundred million people around the world and, with over 800 million member owners, play an important part in community well-being and promotion of decent work. In remote areas, cooperatives provide livelihoods for millions who might otherwise be mired in poverty.
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