The International Labour Organization (ILO) will release a major new report on global progress and persistent challenges in achieving social justice, thirty years after the landmark 1995 World Summit for Social Development (WSSD) in Copenhagen and ahead of the second WSSD in Doha this November.
The report offers the most comprehensive assessment to date, tracking advances in poverty reduction, child labour and social protection, while highlighting areas where progress has slowed or stalled, such as informality and inequality.
It also sets out a forward-looking agenda for placing social justice at the core of policymaking - across finance, industry, health and climate - and stresses the need for stronger cooperation between governments, international institutions and social partners.
The report will be launched at a high-level special event at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 23 September, on the margins of the Eightieth Session of the UN General Assembly.
Embargoed copies of the report and the press release are available to accredited journalists upon request.
The report and all associated materials are under STRICT EMBARGO until 23 September at 19:15 CEST (17:15 GMT).
