15 May 2013 – Supportive relationships between family members from different generations are more important now than ever before to face unemployment and other current social and economic challenges, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, marking the International Day of Families. “Unemployment is forcing many young people, often eager for ...

The World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995) defined the objective of social development in general and social integration in particular as the creation of “a society for all”. The very goal of social integration is to bring all social groups, particularly vulnerable groups, and individuals into the political, social, ...

Social policies addressing family poverty, social exclusion and work-family balance are very important in development strategies. Globalization, however, is often associated with implementing structural adjustment policies leading to a reduction in governments’ spending on social programmes. The pure focus on economic advantages ignores the social consequences on families and on ...

The United Nations Programme on the Family in the Division for Social Policy and Development is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on assessing family policies, to be held 1-3 June 2011 in New York. The theme of the meeting is “Assessing family policies: confronting family poverty and social exclusion & ...