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On Commitment
I, enabling social development, and regarding a subparagraph on
financial speculation under a list of measures to reduce the negative
impacts on social development of international financial turbulence,
the G-77/China
added reference to developing, strengthening, and enforcing regulatory
frameworks for monitoring financial operations. On a subparagraph
on improved measures to address short-term capital flow volatility,
the Group proposed text listing improved preventative measures,
including a temporary debt standstill.
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Chair Maquieira led morning and evening sessions
on an enabling environment for social development
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Pakistan
intervenes in support of reference to ratification of the ILO
Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor
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Brazil
spoke on behalf of the G-77/China
On
employment, regarding
a paragraph referring to the ILO's Global Programme of Decent Work,
the G-77/China proposed language on promoting opportunities for
decent and productive work, and inserted text from the review and
assessment document agreed by CSD-38 that referred to, inter
alia, prohibitions on child and forced labor.
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On the employment
commitment, the EU proposed a paragraph on ratifying and implementing
core ILO conventions on: worker's rights of association and collective
bargaining; eliminating forced and child labor; and ending occupational
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Eddy
Lee, ILO, was called upon throughout the Working Group II debate
on employment to provide clarification on, inter alia, ILO
Conventions on child labor and migrant workers
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Good Practices in Social Policy:
Lessons from High-Achieving Countries
This
side event was organized by DESA, UNICEF and UNDP. Santosh Mehrotra,
Senior Economic Adviser, Innocenti Research Center, UNICEF,
presented results of a study, which looked at health and education
indicators and focused on 10 high-achieving countries, all of which
have responsive governments committed to social development. The
countries are Barbados, Cuba, Costa Rica, Kerala (India), Sri Lanka,
Botswana, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Korea, Republic of Korea, and Malaysia.
The results of the study are reflected in a book Development
with a Human Face: Experiences in Social Achievement and Economic
Growth, which is available from the UN Bookshop: www.un.org/Pubs/bookshop
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Kul
Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, John Langmore, Director,
Division for Social Policy and Development, and Santosh Mehrotra,
Senior Economic Adviser, Innocenti Research Center, UNICEF, Florence
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Santosh Mehrotra
outlined seven policy lessons: state provision of basic social services;
high macroeconomic priority to health/education, equity of expenditures
and efficiency of spending; adjustment with a human face; timing of
social investment-early in the development process; sequencing-investment
in basic education which preceded or simultaneous with breakthrough
in infant mortality rates; key health and education interventions;
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Kul
Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Richard Jolly,
Senior Adviser to the Administrator, UNDP
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Linkages Coverage of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen
A summary of the major issues
Agenda for the Second Session of the PrepCom
Secretariat web site with official
documents and information
for NGO participants
Secretary-general's
Report on the Implementation of the Outcome of the WSSD
Summary
of the WSSD agreements
Information on the WSSD+5 Special Session
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