Program Overview
To address all aspects of poverty, including hunger, malnutrition, limited access to basic services, and social exclusion, a social perspective on development is urgently needed. The World Social Summit identified poverty eradication as an ethical, social, political, and economic imperative of mankind. UNANIMA participates in several NGO committees and working groups focused on social development through international policy at the United Nations, including the NGO Committee on Social Development and the NGO Subcommittee on Poverty Eradication. Each year, we conduct grassroots surveys, prepare written statements for the Commission on Social Development, and lobby government delegations to promote our issues.
Program Resources
UNANIMA International: CSocD 49 Written Intervention (Link – NGO/15)
Catherine Ferguson: ‘NGOs, Global Crises, and Poverty Eradication Efforts’ (PDF)
Program Actions
None currently
Petition for Social Protection Floor
Many of you have asked if it is too late to sign your name in support of the Social Protection Floor for all people. NO! it is not too late – even though we presented the signatures you sent us so far, as part of the opening ritual for the Commission for Social Development, they still are being collected (we are hoping for a million!) They will be used by the International Labor Organization at a ceremony in June. So if you have not signed on, you can do so on the website below. Thanks, UNANIMA communities!
CSocD
The work of the UN Commission on Social Development captures the essence of many of our community ministries, dealing as it does with social issues such as education, health, marginalized people, and poverty. Nobody (not even the bureaucrats) could possibly be opposed to this year’s theme, The Eradication of Poverty, right? But ah, “the devil is in the details,” as they say! It was interesting to watch the G-77 (a large group of smaller and/or developing nations plus China) oppose wording about human rights, and the USA oppose any reference to climate change. Can we guess what is going on behind the scenes there?
The Commission on Social Development
Several representatives of UNANIMA communities will attend this UN commission on February 1-10 this year. UNANIMA works with three committees preparing for it (the Working Group on Climate Change and Poverty, the NGO Committee on Social Development, and a Subcommittee on the Eradication of Poverty. See the prayer service for this month!
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