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Promoting social integration. Report of the Secretary-General

Commission for Social Development, Forty-eighth session, 3-12 February 2010, E/CN.5/2010/2

UN, Economic and Social Council
2010
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Summary (English)

The present report was prepared in response to Economic and Social Council resolution 2008/19, in which the Council decided that the priority theme for the 2009-2010 review and policy cycle of the Commission for Social Development should be “Social integration”, taking into account its relationships with poverty eradication and full employment and decent work for all. The report provides an overview of current social integration policies and obstacles to their implementation. It focuses on redistributive, anti-discriminatory and participatory policies promoting social integration and concludes with recommendations for future action.

Note

Item 3 (a) of the provisional agenda (E/CN.5/2010/1).
Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly:
priority theme: social integration

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