Author: Maria Fornella-Oehninger Soroptimist International Representative to the UN, NYHQ From 4–6 November 2025 in Doha, Qatar, Heads of State and Government will meet for the Second World Summit for Social Development, as mandated by UN General Assembly resolutions 78/261…
During the 2024 Global People’s Assembly, the NGO Committee for Social Development co-organized a “Strategy Meeting Towards the Second World Social Summit.” The session offered civil society and other stakeholders the opportunity to come together and create a collective work…
A reflection by Liana Almony, Chair of the NGO CSocD for the 2024-2026 termOriginally published and shared as a position paper for UNANIMA International Introduction The first World Summit for Social Development took place in Copenhagen in 1995 with an…
A reflection by Liana Almony, Chair of the NGO CSocD for the 2024-2026 term Today the 2024 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development came to a close with the presentation of two reports by the Secretary-General on the priority…
This blogpost is a reflection from one of the breakout groups formed during the NGO Collaboration Session as part of the Civil Society Forum 2022, during the sixtieth session of the Commission for Social Development. This breakout group was composed…
Blog post by Ella Rayment, Intern for the NGO Committee for Social Development. On the 7th July 2021, we at the NGO Committee on Social Development hosted a virtual parallel event on the margins of the High Level Political Forum in…
CSOCD59: THE FIRST VIRTUAL CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM (CSF) Blogpost by Allie Liu, Communications & Advocacy Assistant at Soroptimist International. The original post can be found here. As the 59th Session of the Commission of Social Development (CSocD59) commenced at the…
Digital Technology and Social Welfare The implications of technology on social welfare can often underscore the inequality, discrimination, and harm that sometimes comes with institutional structures and practices. For example, in India, the centralized database of its population, Aadhaar, was…
Digital technology and social well-being Author: Antara Basu 4th century BC, the incident of Draupadi’s vastraharan, imagine how differently the scene would have played out if 1091 existed. Or conjure 1945, Nazi Germany, imagine the armies of Twitter and Instagram staging…
