Highlights

1. 2024 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development

   Achieving Universal Social Protection:

   23 April 2024

   Pathways to Inclusive Financing for Development

2. UN General Assembly Sustainability Week

   Addressing the Invisible Labour behind the Cobalt Industry: A presentation of the film Cobalt Rush and panel discussion

   15 April 2024

   Co-sponsored by the International Labour Organization, World Council of Peoples for the UN, and the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

3. 

   Global Accelerator

   Philippines joins the Global Accelerator aiming to expand jobs and social protection

   27 March 2024

   To address challenges and channel investments, the Philippines becomes a pathfinder country of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, a joint high impact initiative of the United Nations to create decent work and extend social protection for sustainable development.

4. 

   © Ramasomanana / UNICEF 2024

   Basic social protection

   1.4 billion children globally missing out on basic social protection, according to latest data

   14 February 2024

   Fewer than 1-in-10 children in low-income countries have access to child benefits, leaving them vulnerable to disease, education gaps, poor nutrition, poverty and inequality.