27 de maig del 2016

12 May 2016, The Celebration of the International Day of Families at UN Headquarters: “Families, healthy lives and sustainable future”


UN Headquarters, Focal Point on the Family (DSDP/DESA) has celebrated the International Day of Families. A panel hold by international experts has discussed how to accomplish well-being for all ages. There is no doubt that families remain at the centre of social life ensuring the well-being of their members, educating and socializing children and youth and caring for young and old.  (Quote: Background Note from Focal Point on the Family).

Dominic Richardson, Senior Education Specialist from Innocenti Office of Research, UNICEF, has been the moderator and has done introductory remarks, pointing his high level of knowledge of family indicators.

Daryl Higgins, deputy director at the Autralian Institute of Family Studies, Zitha Mokomane, professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria(South Africa), Scott Behson, professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rosario Esteinou, sociologist has been visitor professor at the center of Family Research at the University of Cambridge,  and Wendy Wang, senior researcher at Pew Research Center,  had done the presentations, all of them trying to delve into children well-being, in work and family balance, in involving fatherhood at the workplaces and home, in parents and youth, and intergenerational relations inside the families.

After the presentations there was a roundtable discussion with all the audience, more than 100 persons filled up the conference room.


 


                                          The panelists

                                          Dominic Richardson and Irma Rognoni

                                          Ignacio Socias and Irma Rognoni

19 de maig del 2016

United Nations Expert Group Meeting (May 2016), “Family policies & 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda”


Last week has been celebrated at UNHQ in New York one of the encounters of the Expert Group Meeting in the framework of the Department for Economic and Social Policy and Development (UNDESA), Division for Social Policy and Development.

The special discussion was focused in family policies and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The main points of discussion were:

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (SDG3): reduction in global maternal mortality & access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning.
Family policies for poverty and hunger eradication (SDG1, 2): reduction of poverty, social protection,  access to basic services,  create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international level, ender hunger and improve nutrition.
Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning for all (SDG4).
Anchoring family policy in the 2030 Agenda trough relevant family research and indicators.

All the speakers expressed the high level of expertise, the significance of the role of the family at all levels, specially in preventing poverty and educating for the future in order to achieve what is mentioned in the Preamble of Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ”to strength universal peace in larger freedom, and to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path” (Quote: UN. Sustainable Development. Knowledge Platform -DESA).