The best authorities of the United Nations Financial and Social Council (ECOSOC) referred to as as we speak for intensifying worldwide cooperation and joint work at a time of nice world uncertainty, throughout a Particular Assembly that’s happening in Santiago, Chile on the central headquarters of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
That is the second time in 73 years that this vital UN physique has held a session in Chile. The primary occasion was in 1951, beneath Chile’s ECOSOC presidency and due to the efforts of Chilean Ambassador Hernán Santa Cruz, when the group’s twelfth session was held in Santiago. That was the primary time in United Nations historical past that considered one of its important organs convened outdoors official headquarters (New York) in a growing nation.
At this time, in 2024, and beneath the banner of “The future of work: towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable global society”, ECOSOC and its presidency – held once more by the Authorities of Chile – determined to maneuver this Council assembly from New York and produce it as soon as once more to the South, with the goal of guaranteeing that world coverage dialogue displays regional and nationwide realities and that the reflections and orientations can contribute to the work of policymakers in any respect ranges.
The assembly was inaugurated by Ambassador Paula Narváez, President of ECOSOC and the Everlasting Consultant of Chile to the United Nations. The senior worldwide official indicated that uncertainty has been the hallmark of our time, and an admittedly complicated worldwide outlook could be discerned. “Midway by the timeframe for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement, we’re leaving greater than half the world behind. We want pressing measures. We should work much more, in an effort that we all know can solely be made collectively,” she emphasised.
“We have to improve funding to create extra respectable jobs. Larger cooperation, extra worldwide financing and technical help that may complement nationwide assets to broaden respectable work and entry to social safety. A coordinated effort is critical to counteract informality and to create insurance policies that require respectable wages, safe contracts and good labor situations,” Narváez said.
In the meantime, the Minister of International Affairs of Chile, Alberto Van Klaveren, mentioned that persistent inequalities, financial insecurity, rising impacts of local weather change, conflicts on the rise and a digital divide that’s widening are obstacles that threaten our aim of attaining prosperity for all. “The Political Declaration of the SDG Summit, in September 2023, established a highway map, however it additionally referred to as for adopting a crucial perspective to advertise deep and pressing transformations in direction of extra sustainable and inclusive improvement insurance policies. First rate work emerges as being key to this finish. It isn’t solely a method of lowering poverty and inequalities, it additionally promotes inclusion,” he reaffirmed.
In a video message despatched to the assembly, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-Normal, Amina Mohammed, said that “the world of labor is evolving and so should our strategy to empower employees navigating the brand new period of the labor markets. First rate work shouldn’t be solely a proper, however a necessity for workers’ dignity and prosperity. Allow us to act as we speak with inclusive insurance policies and social protections, skill-building, and improvements for employees all over the place.”
In his welcome remarks, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Govt Secretary, indicated that ECOSOC continues to be one of many UN’s most related boards for addressing financial and social points from a complete and multilateral perspective, fostering rapport and facilitating a extra simply and sustainable world.
“The unprecedented transformations that the labor market is experiencing are being pushed by a sequence of things, comparable to technological improvements, demographic modifications and rising demand for care, and better human mobility and migration, amongst others,” he famous. “It’s crucial that we acquire a greater understanding of the elements driving these modifications, and the corresponding dangers and alternatives, in an effort to design applicable responses to create respectable jobs and tackle the social and financial results.”
Subsequently, famend economists Mariana Mazzucato and Jeffrey Sachs gave two keynote addresses on the assembly’s central theme.
Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Goal (IIPP) of College School London (UCL), emphasised that it’s essential to take all sustainable improvement points significantly. “What is going to actually change the world is to place the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) on the middle, not on the periphery, of the orientations of the financial system,” she affirmed.
In the meantime, Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia College’s Middle for Sustainable Improvement (United States), mentioned that ee have been residing in an age of technological development and the capability to advance technologically determines the general advances of our economies. “This relies on the abilities of the labor drive which in flip relies upon overwhelmingly within the high quality of training,” he underscored.
The Particular Assembly of ECOSOC on the “Future of labor” will proceed this Tuesday, January 23 with two roundtables entitled “Balancing the alternatives and challenges of a altering labor market to make sure respectable work for all” and “Harnessing the impacts of rising applied sciences to assist inclusive labor markets.”
In the meantime, tomorrow (Wednesday, January 24) a ceremony might be held to commemorate ECLAC’s seventy fifth anniversary and a 3rd roundtable entitled “Shaping a way forward for respectable work and social safety for all” will convene. As well as, there might be a particular occasion on the seventy fifth anniversary of the Common Declaration of Human Rights that can embody a celebration of the legacy of Ambassador Hernán Santa Cruz, one of many preliminary drafters of the Declaration.
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