{"id":8027,"date":"2025-02-25T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:57:24","slug":"un-summit-of-the-future-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/news\/2025\/02\/25\/un-summit-of-the-future-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[Event Report] The 63rd Session of the Commission For Social Development ahead of the Second World Social Summit in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Opening Session of the Commission for Social Development\u2019s 63rd Session<\/p><\/div>\n

The <\/span>Economic and Social Council of the United Nations<\/span><\/a> (ECOSOC) oversees a variety of subsidiary bodies related to economic and social development in all of its diverse forms. One of the Functional Commissions that ECOSOC oversees each year particularly related to social development is the Commission for Social Development (CSocD). This year, from 10 to 14 February 2025, <\/span>CSocD held its 63rd Session<\/span><\/a> (CSocD63).<\/span><\/p>\n

The priority theme for CSocD63 was, \u201cStrengthening solidarity, social inclusion and social cohesion to accelerate the delivery of the commitments of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development as well as the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.\u201d The <\/span>Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development<\/span><\/a> was originally adopted back in 1995 when world leaders met in Copenhagen for the <\/span>World Summit for Social Development<\/span><\/a>. The Declaration listed 10 commitments adopted by consensus to drive social development around the world, and the respective <\/span>Programme of Action<\/span><\/a> enumerated concrete ways that Member States could implement the 10 commitments included in the Declaration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Group photo of global leaders attending the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995<\/p><\/div>\n

Development has always been a <\/span>core pillar of the United Nations<\/span><\/a> since its founding in 1945. However, economic and environmental development have frequently been prioritized, leaving social development on the backburner. While economic development centers money, and environmental development centers nature, social development takes a \u201cpeople-centered\u201d approach and centers the human being in development. For example, some of the \u201cpeople-centered\u201d commitments made in the 1995 Copenhagen Declaration include eradicating poverty, promoting full employment, fostering social integration, achieving gender equality, and accessing quality education.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Side event hosted by the German Youth Delegates at the German Permanent Mission titled, \u201cStrengthening Youth Engagement from the CSocD to the World Social Summit\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

The priority of social development is the implementation of and accessibility to <\/span>social protections<\/span><\/a>. In simple terms, social protections are safety nets provided by governments to people at various points of their lives. CSocD specifically focuses on the provision of social protections as a State duty, and it is the duty of the Member State to ensure that businesses and private individuals are following their commitments. A variety of thematic side events held in alignment with CSocD63 indicated that social protections could\/should apply during the following scenarios:<\/span><\/p>\n