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Progress Report by the Director

UNRISD
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social assistance
human rights
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Community ethics
Lifestyle ethics
Social ethics
Sexual orientation/gender
Education and ethics
Minority ethics
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Ethics and Sustainable Development Goals
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/179283
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"This report presents the Institute’s work from January through December 2004, including its conference, research, advisory, publication and dissemination activities. It is supplemented by an administrative and financial report. 2 Work under the project to prepare the UNRISD Policy Report on Gender and Development, titled Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, was particularly intense during the current reporting period. The four sections of the report were drafted, peer reviewed, revised and edited. By the end of 2004, the report was in the final stages of production and on schedule for printing in time for the launch in New York in March 2005. Additional members of staff were recruited to work on the production and dissemination of this report, and a network of freelance editors and designers was also set up. 3 Based on the findings of the Institute’s ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, the report’s analysis is centred on the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. If most of these reforms did not directly address gender equality, they nevertheless received considerable scrutiny from a gender perspective. And whatever their intentions, they had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women’s well-being. As its title alludes, achieving gender equality and gender justice will be very difficult in a world that is increasingly unequal. The report presents strong arguments for why gender equality must be placed at the core of efforts to reorient the development agenda. Indeed, if some of the key contemporary challenges—economic growth and structural transformation, equality and social protection, and democratization—are to be met, it argues, this is essential. 4 United Nations (UN) organizations are often asked whether their research on social development issues is useful for international policy making. Implicit in this question are concerns about the relevance, quality, dissemination and impact of research. To understand how research impacts policy, it is necessary to examine how the relationship is mediated by politics, discourse, subjectivity and learning, as well as the implications of a range of new institutional developments. Distinguished speakers and panellists addressed such issues at a two-day UNRISD conference, Social Knowledge and International Policy Making: Exploring the Linkages, which provided an occasion to mark the fortieth anniversary of UNRISD and also to contribute to an UNRISD initiative that periodically brings together senior UN officials in a dialogue on key development issues."(pg 1)
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2005-03
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