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On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, a high-level seminar entitled “Towards the Second World Summit for Social Development: Enhancing global efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda” will be inaugurated by Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO); and José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary and Coordinator of the United Nations Regional Economic Commissions in 2024. Alberto van Klaveren, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, will also participate in the event.

At this event – which will take place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. local time in Chile (GMT-4) and will be transmitted via social media – participants will discuss how to enhance the global commitments around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of the Second World Summit for Social Development, which will be held in 2025. They will also analyze the path that countries have followed since the First World Summit for Social Development (held in Copenhagen in 1995), the changes that have occurred in conditions since then, and the central challenges that must be addressed to promote more inclusive and cohesive social development in the world.

 Watch here the complete live transmission of the event, English translation available (click also image below):