The UN and the Promotion of Social Development

In a globalized and interdependent world, it seems increasingly evident that there is a need to promote formulas of cooperation which will benefit all members of the international community. An awareness of the importance of promoting the less industrialized nations’ struggle towards development, especially for the least advanced ones, is linked to new approaches for the treatment of social problems. Great advances have been made in the construction of a new “agenda for development,” which must respond to the needs of most Nations, as was shown at Copenhagen, and in the documents and commitments which emerged from there. As we come closer to the UN’s 50th anniversary, the international society’s concerns show evidence of the emergence of a new social agenda which was not previously apparent in international organizations.