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The road to the 2025 Second World Summit for Social Development: towards a pact for inclusive social development

1 April 2025 | Publication

Since the establishment of the United Nations, various intergovernmental agreements and international human rights instruments have expressed the ambition of achieving social development, which is central to the multilateral system. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948) stressed the importance of well-being and, implicitly, of improved quality of life, both of which are linked to the rights to social security, work, an adequate standard of living, education and health. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (United Nations, 1966) broadened…

Latin America and the Caribbean looking ahead to the Second World Summit for Social Development: proposals for inclusive social development

1 April 2025 | Publication

The overarching objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development —ending poverty and hunger and reducing inequality— are long-held priorities of the region and particularly salient in the work of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region’s countries have cooperated to achieve these objectives since the establishment of the Regional Conference as a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in 2014. The Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development, adopted by the Regional Confe…

On the road to the Second World Summit for Social Development: contributions from the regional commissions

27 January 2025 | Publication

The joint document underscores the need to strengthen social policies and tailor them to a risk structure reconfigured by global crises. Alongside high levels of poverty, inequality and informal employment, profound transformations in demographics, climate, technology and the labour market are under way. Complementary actions beyond social policy are also needed, as progress is equally crucial in the economic and environmental dimensions. Regional frameworks and agreements have been instrumental in driving social policy change and must continue to be leveraged, including in the universalizatio…

Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024: the challenges of non-contributory social protection in advancing towards inclusive social development

31 December 2024 | Publication

This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024 focuses on the challenges of non-contributory social protection in advancing towards inclusive social development in the region. Tackling the development crisis, inclusive social development gaps and changing risk structure demands progress towards universal, comprehensive, sustainable and resilient social protection systems. Non-contributory social protection policies are essential to fulfil the goals and functions of social protection systems: the protection of income, access to social services and labour inclusion.…

The trap of high inequality and low social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean: An obstacle for inclusive and sustainable social development

15 November 2024 | Publication

Extreme inequality, which characterizes Latin America and the Caribbean across multiple dimensions, constitutes a trap that hinders progress towards sustainable development. It is unacceptable from a rights and social justice perspective, counterproductive for economic growth, and corrosive for social cohesion and for the stability of social compacts. It also perpetuates two other structural development traps in the region: the inability to grow in the long term and low institutional and governance capacity. From an economics perspective, inequality is inefficient for a number of reasons. Acce…

Reducing Inequality and Pursuing Inclusive Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges, Priorities and Key Messages in preparation for the Second World Summit for Social Development

28 October 2024 | Publication

In the 30 years since the World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen, inclusive social development has played an increasingly central role in the region’s policies, institutions and performance. However, big challenges remain as new risks are emerging, and these must be addressed with new agreements and better policies to achieve inclusion and ensure the exercise of social rights, as recommended in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Amid the major changes, various crises and new conflicts under way, the Second World Summit for Social Development, to be held in 2025, repre…

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