February 2025 - 30 years ago, world leaders united around a groundbreaking commitment to put people at the centre of development. At the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, they pledged ...

A turning point for financing for development awaits in 2025. With the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Seville, Spain, the global ...

The Coordination Segment will bring together Member States, ECOSOC subsidiary bodies, UN system entities, including specialized agencies, and other participants. By serving as a platform for ...

UN calls for innovative solutions to strengthen social inclusion. and social cohesion to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Follow LIVE on UN Web TV. With renewed urgency ...

With only five years remaining until 2030, less than one-fifth of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets are on track—further exacerbated by a $4 trillion annual financing gap. The world ...

Applications are now open for the 2026 United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA). UNPSA recognizes excellence in public service at the national, sub-national and local level.

We will not be able to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals without […] a full sense of partnership,” said ECOSOC President Ambassador Bob Rae, as we spoke with him ahead of the 2025 ...

Established in 1946, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) is a standing committee of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It is the main gateway for NGOs, as representatives ...

Our complicated modern era requires leaders to use foresight to make strategic choices to shape a resilient, inclusive and sustainable world.

[Delivered by Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations] ...

Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; and Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights and the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and ...

Ambassador Bob Rae is President of the 2025 session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. 31 January 2025 There is ...