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Promoting the inclusion of young people through social protection

Social protection is a potent policy tool to protect people from poverty throughout the life cycle. It can also reduce inequality and social exclusion. However, as ...

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Protect indigenous people’s land rights and the whole world will benefit

In her opening remarks to the Forum in New York, the chairperson, Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, a medical doctor from Timbuktu, Mali, called the land husbandry ...

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Report of the 56th Commission for Social Development (CSocD56)

The fifty-sixth session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD56) was held from 29 January to 7 February 2018, with the priority theme of “Strategies for ...

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Promoting the inclusion of young people through social protection

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Report of the 56th Commission for Social Development (CSocD56)

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Third Committee Opens Session to Calls for Greater Inclusion of Youth, Women, Persons with Disabilities in Decisions Affecting their Lives
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list bullet Report on the World Social Situation 2018: Executive Summary
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list bullet World Youth Report 2016 on Youth Civic Engagement
list bullet SWAP on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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56th Session of the Commission for Social Development
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list bullet Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP)
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 Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA)

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UNPFII17 Video list bullet UNPFII17: Protecting the rights and well being of indigenous peoples
list bullet CSocD56: Amina J. Mohammed (Deputy Secretary-General) Opening Remarks
list bullet CSocD56: Opening Session
list bullet CSocD56: Strategies for eradicating poverty to achieve sustainable development for all
list bullet Change the Way You Think About Age!

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