DOHA, Nov 12 2025 (IPS) - Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and nearly...
The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act
DOHA, Nov 12 2025 (IPS) - Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and nearly...
“Let’s revive hope”
At the Social Summit, our governments pledged to end poverty, reduce inequalities, and promote care, but we are not being told what they will do differently to achieve a different result.
Intervention by Roberto...
Invitation WSSD2: Decent work and Employment Opportunities
Join us in the Solutions Session (Side-Event) "Decent work and employment opportunities: Action-oriented approaches to empower future generations of women and girls" at the second UN World Summit for Social Development, Doha Qatar (November 4-6, 2025)
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Invitation WSSD2: Discussion on Shifting the paradigm: centring care society and social protection for social development
Join us on Monday 3rd November for our online panel discussion: Shifting the paradigm: centring care society and social protection for social development.
Monday 3 November
16:00-17:30 Doha / 14:00-15:30 Paris / 8:00-9:30 New York...
WSSD2: Opening Panel of the Civil Society Forum in Doha
Thirty years after the Social Summit, will the commitments be renewed or rewritten?
The Civil Society Forum in Doha will remind leaders and bureaucrats of their 1995 promise "to ensure that international agreements relating...
WSSD2 - Beyond Symbolism and Rhetoric: Ensuring meaningful and deliberative participation and partnerships with the people furthest behind
The International Movement ATD Fourth World and UNRISD invite you to watch the webinar for the occasion of the Second Summit of Social Development, which takes place on 4 – 6 November, in Doha, Qatar.
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Social Watch at LLDC3
Dr. Kenan Aslanli participated in the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), that took place in Awaza, Turkmenistan, from 5 to 8, August, 2025.
Dr. Kenan Aslanli’s spoke at plenary session 2:...
Apply Now for the 2025 Global South Study Week in Beirut, Lebanon
Call for Applications: Apply Now for the 2025 Global South Study Week in Beirut, Lebanon
Deadline: August 20, 2025
Are you a young civil society activist from the Global South working on development,...
The Sevilla consensus: “You’re on your own, Kid”
“You're on your own, kid ….
Yeah, you can face this ….
You're on your own, kid ….
You always have been ….”
—Taylor Swift
At the closing ceremony...
79th UN General Assembly: Committees 2 & 3
Bridging the gap between what is said and discussed at the UN headquarters and how that is translated into policy at the national and local levels remains a persistent challenge. Attention and querying at the...