️️🎙️ This week on our #SSEEssentials Podcast Spotlight: "Social Services," with Susanne Elsen.
In this episode, she explains how SSE offers a bottom-up approach to social services, & encourage the youth to act on their visions.
🎧 youtu.be/R5wGEXOdMwg?...
#Beyond2025
📢 MEET THE SPEAKERS: 1st #IPI Meeting in Geneva
We are honored to welcome a remarkable group of speakers, ft. Nobel Laureate @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @unaids.org Director Winnie Byanyima, who will help frame the conversation on tackling the global inequality emergency.
🔗 ow.ly/pfYo50YseCF
📢 New | UNRISD eBulletin – #IWD2026 Special
In this eBulletin, explore insights on the interconnectedness of Gender w/Justice, Just Transition, Care, Feminist Policies, and Peace & Sustainability.
🔗 Read: ow.ly/FyH350YrUSf
🔗 Follow UNRISD at #CSW70: ow.ly/FyIz50YrUSg
It’s a wrap 🎬✨
120+ joined us for #SocialJusticeDay at @ungeneva.bsky.social to reflect on Fanon's legacy. Huge thanks to our partners, panelists, all youth lab participants, and the film screening audience.
The conversation continues! ✊🌍
🔗Stay tuned for more: unrisd.org/sjd2026
🌏 Join our team!
UNRISD is looking for an intern interested in measuring how research influences engagement, policy, and knowledge uptake.
📥 Apply by 16th Mar 2026
🔗 www.unrisd.org/en/about/vac...
📢 Full Programme Announced | First Meeting of the IPI
Featuring Nobelist Joseph E. Stiglitz & Winnie Byanyima, this high-level panel builds on #G20 legacy for a new era of cooperation at the Palais des Nations.
🔗 Register now: ow.ly/WGoV50YptsE
Some important quotes from the session👇
🟢#RoadToCOP31: Webinar Highlights
On Mon, the Just Transition in Education webinar reminded us that education is public care work, yet undervalued. We must teach climate truth, decolonize curricula & empower educators to reclaim it for a just future!
📹:ow.ly/zI2E50YpqVz
📕 New #BeyondCopenhagen Think Piece–International Women's Day Special🌍
How can feminist visions shape a new eco-social contract? Anna Ackzell explores Feminist Foreign & Development Policies from a Global South perspective—toward real social transformation.
🔗 ow.ly/IAeH50Yq1Op
#IWD2026 #FFDP
📢 Announcing #APOHS2026 🔵
Tomorrow, UNRISD launches the 4th ed. of the Advanced Programme on Human Rights & Sustainable Development w/Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation, welcoming 10 scholars from Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia & Myanmar 🌍
🔗 ow.ly/CYpV50YpCmO
🚨UNRISD at #CSW70 | Reminder
Join co-organizers, UNRISD, and @fesonline.bsky.social at: "Global Trends & Strategic Responses to Anti-Feminist & Anti-Rights Backlash."
🗒️9 Mar| 10:30 (EST)| New York| In-Person
⚠️Registration deadline: 6 Mar
🔗Save your seat now: ow.ly/N9J250Ypzz8
🎙️This week on our #SSEEssentials Podcast Spotlight: “Food, Agriculture and Reduction of Hunger and Poverty”, w/Judith Hitchman.
Discover how SSE principles advance food sovereignty — moving beyond charity toward community power.
🔗 ow.ly/6j7j50YoZpg
#Beyond2025
📢 Save the Date: World Social Work Day 2026
👥 Co-Building Hope and Harmony
⏰ 18 Mar | 9h00 CET | Online
Join us to explore how the African philosophy of Harambee can guide us toward a more inclusive and peaceful world!
🔗 ow.ly/YmOn50Yk8wA
🔗 Find more information and registration details for all 4 events here: ow.ly/k84l50Yo5tE
📅 Mark Your Calendar: UNRISD at #CSW70
Join us in NYC this March to advance gender equality & justice via 4 key events:
-Mar 9: ow.ly/h6bP50Yo5tB
-Mar 11: ow.ly/fm4C50Yo5tG
-Mar 16: ow.ly/H5aZ50Yo5tC
-Mar 16: ow.ly/GRjO50Yo5tA
📢 New | UNRISD eBulletin – Feb 2026
From #SocialJusticeDay to real policy change, this special issue explores eco-social contracts, environmental justice & care-centered climate transitions driving sustainable futures.
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💡How are anti-gender movements co-opting "sustainable development"?
New article by Lata Narayanaswamy
& Haley McEwen reveals how "smart economics" is being used to mask exclusionary agendas.
A must-read for #Beijing30!
📖 ow.ly/ZZko50Yk6UZ
🎙️This week on our #SSEEssentials Podcast Spotlight: "The Sustainability Development Goals" with Professor Denison Jayasooria. In this episode, we explore how SSEs build justice, self-reliance & UN SDGs locally.
🎧 Tune it here: youtu.be/rGQjjpyUgzY?...
#Beyond2025
Partners: @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social Global Call To Action Against Poverty, Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors, @globalpolicyforum.bsky.social, Global Social Justice, @icrict.bsky.social @ilo.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @taxjustice.net @unrisd.org @unu-iigh.bsky.social
How do debt & tax justice impact your right to health?🌍
A new video w/@brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social and partners, explores how global finance shapes social protection.
▶️ Hear from experts at #FfD4 & #WSSD2 on why universal access is a vital human right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd7k...
📕 #NewInTheLibrary
How do we rebuild the social contract amid climate crises and inequality? "Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures" (open-access) by UNRISD & @springernature.com explores reweaving bonds between people, planet & power.
📖 Download now:https://ow.ly/ZZko50Yk6UZ
📢 Update: Sold Out!
Thank you for the incredible response to our Social Justice Day 2026 event "Exploring FANON" at the Palais des Nations! We are officially at capacity and look forward to seeing you on 25 Feb at 14:30 for a powerful afternoon of film & dialogue. 🎬✨
#SocialJusticeDay
📢 Save the Date | UNRISD on the #RoadToCOP31
📆 2 Mar 2026 | 15:30–17:00 | Online
Join UNRISD and the Just Transition and Care Network for – A Just Transition in Education: A Webinar on Care Work and Just Transition.
🔗 Register here: ow.ly/EMmt50Yk9el
What does renewed commitment to social development & social justice require today?
On #SocialJusticeDay, UNRISD calls for protecting #labourrights, ensuring #decentwork & #socialprotection, reducing #inequalities & advancing #economicjustice.
🔎 Learn more: ow.ly/NklR50Yj0cb
“A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society...” - Fanon
Do his words still echo in the 21st century?
Join us for #SocialJusticeDay for a special film screening & panel discussion.
📆 25.02|14h30|@UNGeneva
🎟️ www.unrisd.org/sjd2026
What comes next after the 2nd WSSD?🌎
The message is clear: this is just the beginning. Now it’s up to Member States to turn commitments into real policies — with civil society at the center. UNRISD is here to support turning ambition into action.
🔗https://ow.ly/PIcz50YgUiC
📕 #New in the Library
❓How can peace & social development advance inclusively?
This #BeyondCopenhagen Think Piece shows how youth-led action in Honduras, Kenya, Uganda & Brazil—through education, livelihoods & women’s leadership—builds lasting peace.
🔗 ow.ly/BEh850YgHvV
🎬 25 Feb | 14:30 | UN Cinema
For #SocialJusticeDay, UNRISD & SHAP SHAP present a special PUBLIC screening of FANON (2025), followed by a live discussion with the director, lead actor & activist Féris Barkat.
An afternoon of cinema, resistance & dialogue.
🎟 www.unrisd.org/sjd2026
💡What were the key highlights of the 2nd #WSSD?
→ UNRISD experts reflect on why the summit sent a hopeful signal despite global polarization — from the adoption of the Doha Declaration to debates on AI, youth, poverty, social protection, and climate.
🔗 ow.ly/15uS50YeenI
🎙️#SSEEssentials Podcast Spotlight: “Cooperatives and Mutuals”, with Chiyoge Sifa. In this episode, we explore how SSE and cooperatives respond to inequality and conflict, strengthen social cohesion & advance the SDGs amid global uncertainty.
🔗https://ow.ly/fmWq50YcJ3v
