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UN News
- As ECOSOC annual substantive session ends, UN officials hail achievements
- Number of people needing humanitarian help globally rises to 62 million – UN
- At high-level discussion, UN officials highlight costs of corruption on societies
- UN development cooperation forum ends with call for strong collaboration among states
- UN Development Cooperation Forum to address poverty reduction and sustainability
- ECOSOC high-level policy dialogue on world economy elicits lively debate
- UN Economic and Social Council high-level meeting opens with focus on jobs crisis
- Global partnership key to achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015 - UN report
- ILO chief: global economy at turning point, time to rethink policies
UN Press Releases and Meetings Coverage
- ECOSOC adopts texts on Social, Human Rights Issues
- ECOSOC takes up matters on Decolonization, Regional Cooperation, and Environment
- Least Developed Countries still need help building productive capacities, High Representative tells ECOSOC
- Millennium Development Goals ‘Galvanizing but Too Narrow’ Economic and Social Council told
- ECOSOC adopts text on Strengthening Humanitarian Assistance
- Improving the capacities of evidence-based humanitarian decision-making
- Differences are source of strength, UN Heads of Funds, Programmes say
- ‘Everything we do should be judged by how it impacts the people we are serving,’ ECOSOC said
- Economic and Social Council Begins Consideration of United Nations Operational Activities, Under-Secretary-General Urges Enhanced Coordination, Coherence
- Economic and Social Council Encourages United Nations System to Strengthen Efforts to Raise Profile of Global Education Agenda, Maximize Results Towards Agreed Goals
- Corruption Feeds Criminality, Fuels Public Distrust, Secretary-General Tells Economic and Social Council, Declaring: ‘We Cannot Let It Persist’
- Dramatic Changes in Global Landscape Demand Deeper Ties among Developing Countries, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Development Cooperation Forum
- Economic and Social Council President Urges Stronger, More Balanced Partnerships, as Third Development Cooperation Forum Opens amid Shifting Development Landscape
- Supportive, Inclusive Economic Policies Needed to Generate Jobs, Ward Off Effects of Sluggish Global Growth, Economic and Social Council Told
- Jobs crisis, shaky global economy create 'Policy Moment' for United Nations - Economic and Social Council told as it opens 2012 High-level Segment
- Press conference on International Labour Organization's call for action on youth employment issues
- Press conference on upcoming session of Economic and Social Council
- Getting the world working: jobs, growth and development cooperation
- Jobs crisis, shaky global economy create 'Policy Moment' for United Nations - Economic and Social Council told as it opens 2012 High-level Segment
- Press conference on International Labour Organization's call for action on youth employment issues
- Press conference on upcoming session of Economic and Social Council
- Getting the world working: jobs, growth and development cooperation
UN Radio
- Corruption: A threat to sustainable development: ECOSOC
- Rockefeller Foundation finds "impact investing" key to driving development
- Development Cooperation Forum opens in New York
- ECOSOC tackles global jobs crisis in High-level Segment
Videos
- ECOSOC boosting efforts on a delivering as One UN
- UN plans on Delivering as One in more ways than one
- ECOSOC 2012 High-level Segment Adopts Ministerial Declaration
- ECOSOC Takes on Corruption, Transparency and Effective Job Policies
- South-South Cooperation at Heart of ECOSOC Development Session
- ECOSOC Hones in on Future Development Cooperation
- Day Two ECOSOC High Level Segment Tackles Global Economy
- ECOSOC opens High-level Segment, focus on decent jobs
- UN webcast of the High-level Segment of ECOSOC
- Daily Press Briefing and guests on the ILO's call to action on the youth employment crisis
- Daily Press Briefing with guest Miloš Koterec, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)