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).


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