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	Expert Group Meeting on People's Empowerment New York City, 10-12 September 2012 United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN) Empowering People through Knowledge Sharing Fifty-First Session of the Commission for Social Development 6-15 February 2013, UN Headquarters New York International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Youth 29-31 January 2013, UN Headquarters New York Write the UN World Youth Report 2013 with us! Contribute your perspectives on youth migration!

Innovation Award: Call for Stories on People's Empowerment

Friday, 15 February 2013

The Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) seeks to find and bring to scale the most incredible stories on people’s empowerment around the globe. Stories like YOURS! You can nominate yourself, or another person you admire who empowered you ...

Posted in : Poverty

Committee on NGOs sees highest number of applications

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play a crucial role in reaching the MDGs and in designing Sustainable Development Goals, as well as a post-2015 development agenda. They advise on relevant issues and pursue country-level action. Last year for example, more than 10,000 NGOs made recommendations for the outcome document ...

Posted in : Civil Society

UN Commission for Social Development issues call to empower the poor

Thursday, 07 February 2013

The United Nations Commission for Social Development today kicked-off its 10-day session in New York with a call to give the poorest and most vulnerable populations the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty. “Empowerment is critical to poverty eradication and to development,” said the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and ...

Posted in : Poverty

Challenges and hope for world’s indigenous youth

Monday, 04 February 2013

The world has never faced such a large youth population as the one inhabiting the globe today, with about 40 per cent of the world population under the age of 25. With the recent economic crisis and high unemployment rates, there are many challenges facing today’s young ...

Posted in : Indigenous

Empowering people for social change

Friday, 01 February 2013

Promoting empowerment of people will be at the core when the Commission for Social Development convenes for its 51st session. “Empowering individuals and social groups requires a comprehensive set of policies and institutions. From education and health care to economic and social policy, activities that seek to empower people are ...

Posted in : Poverty

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