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Empowering Youth, Transforming Work: Global Solutions for Decent Employment
On the margins of the Second World Summit on Social Development (WSSD2), UN DESA, in partnership with Global Youth Philanthropy (GYP), held a Solutions Session side event entitled “Empowering Youth, Transforming Work: Global Solutions for Decent Employment.” The event brought together youth leaders from the private sector and civil society with members of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs (HLAB) to explore concrete, scalable solutions that can unlock decent work opportunities for young people everywhere, for the benefit of everyone.
Engaging Youth and Academia with Data for the Future: “The Sustainable Development Goals 2024” (Session 2)
Join the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the UN Academic Impact for a special Global Policy Dialogue for the Classroom focused on breaking down the recent "2024 Sustainable Development Goals Report."
Promoting Gender Equality Through Education: Exploring SDGs 4 and 5
Ahead of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) happening 5-15 July, UN DESA hosted a discussion on two of the SDGs to be reviewed in-depth at the Forum. Experts at Tuesday's session on SDG 4, Quality Education, and SDG 5, Gender Equality, will discuss ways to strengthen the interlinkages between these Goals and ideas for building and scaling up partnerships to reach our targets.