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Thematic Areas
| Social Inclusion
Reducing inequality has the power to result in sustainable development for all; however achieving equality requires integrated social and economic policy frameworks.
The role of reducing inequality to achieve the 2030 Agenda was highlighted by the…
| Poverty Eradication
The 2016 Beijing Forum was held from 4 to 6 November 2016 in China under the general theme “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All”. The Forum aims at promoting the study of humanities and social sciences around the world. It…
| Youth
The Catholic intellectual Romano Guardini must have had the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in view when he opined that “the only measure for properly evaluating an age is to ask to what extent it fosters the development and…
| Ageing
Background
The challenge to exploit the potential of the aging population has become a pressing social problem in recent years in Central-Eastern Europe. At the same time the offer of active ageing programmes has narrowed. The transfer of…
| Social Inclusion
What price for instability…
Perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from recent history is the high price that the human community pays for unstable inter-religious, inter-racial, and inter-ethnic relations. Positive relations across…
| Disabilities
Disability is an evolving concept with a tendency to present itself when the environment does not support the needs of an individual.
It has been ten years since the adoption of the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In…
| Families
WOOMB International projects offer innovative policies and programmes for families, indigenous communities and youth. A recent project in Timore Leste addressed five Sustainable Development Goals as follows:Goal # 3 Good health and well-being; Goal…
| Youth
The annual United Nations Department of Public Information’s NGO Youth-Led Briefing brought hundreds of youth, from all over the world, to the UN Headquarters in New York to discuss Sustainable Development Goals 1, 4 and 16. A panel of experts…
| Families
Family well-being is the root of a harmonious and stable society. Nowadays, families are being re-shaped by the enormous social changes from globalization, income disparity, ease of mobility, IT development, ageing of population, and attitude…
| Employment
Nature can sometimes derail efforts for sustainable development, especially for those that live in areas with regular drought or flood conditions. This is the case for people living in Nouna, Burkina Faso. Nouna is the capital of the Province…
| Youth
The Sustainable Development Goals and UN Habitat III herald a new era of global development, with the United Nations commitment to end poverty at their core. However, one significant contributor to poverty often goes unnoticed.
Although road traffic…
| Employment
The problems of underemployment and environmental degradation have been major causes of widespread poverty in Nigeria, especially communities in the Niger Delta region. This is because the rural population, mainly farmers, have poor yield from their…