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Emerging Issues
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WSSD+5 will
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look backwards & assess the
present: review implementation of the Copenhagen commitments between 1995
and 2000 (go to WSSD+5)
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look forward: identify new strategies to achieve the
goals agreed at the Social Summit in 1995, and address emerging issues (in
this section).
Currently, the list of
strategies & issues being discussed is rather extensive:
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Globalization: guidelines
on the social responsibilities of business; refocusing macroeconomic
policies; guidelines for policies aiming to collect sufficient revenue to
pay for national social services, social protection and other social
policies in the context of globalization; effective forms of international
cooperation and coordination of taxation policy between countries so as to
contain tax competition;
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Social security (financial
security, their health, and personal safety): principles of socio-economic
policy for responding to financial crises; management of national social
protection systems;
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Mandating several new
global action plans is being discussed, such as on: full employment in
an integrating world; achieving access to education for all by 2015;
achieving access to basic health services for all by 2015;
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Furthermore,
discussions focus on
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a global target
for poverty eradication;
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procedures and
institutions for social dialogue;
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gender
mainstreaming and promoting gender equality nationally and
internationally;
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support for
activities to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS;
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debt relief for
the heavily indebted low-income countries;
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reversing the
current decline in ODA;
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standardization
of development indicators.
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These documents have been taken
and adapted from official UN web-sites
[NOTE: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
Links to relevant documents on these points and developments towards WSSD+5
shall be provided here]
