60 Years of UNRISD @UNRISD

Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago

Opening remarks by Azita Berar, Chair of UNRISD Board, at the Institute's annual stakeholder event, "A Celebration of 60 Years of UNRISD: Building Alliances to Overcome Inequalities".

In 2023 UNRISD celebrates 60 years of fulfilling its unique role as the only United Nations agency devoted exclusively to transformative, evidence-based and sustainable approaches to social development. The Institute is taking this momentous occasion to strengthen bonds with current and potential partners and donors.

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$Inequalities and the 1% in the Context of Sustainable Development Inequalities are one of today’s greatest challenges, obstructing poverty reduction and sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seeks to overcome inequalities, containing two standalone goals—SDGs 5 and 10—and, moreover, an overarching commitment to leaving no one behind. In considering how to reduce inequalities, the time has come to adjust our focus to include not just the bottom of the pyramid, but also the top: elite power and all its ramifications, as well as the sources of these power imbalances, the fractures they have wrought, and the drivers of policy change to level out social stratification and devolve power and resources from elites to non-elites. Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization is a research line within UNRISD programme Social Policy and Development. Learn more about the project: http://www.unrisd.org/OvercomingInequalities Read the issue brief: http://www.unrisd.org/ib10 Stay in touch with UNRISD in social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unrisd Facebook: https://twitter.com/unrisd Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/96767/admin/$

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