Writer: Lina Abou Habib
Thirty years after the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, the global community gathers in Doha to reassess collective commitments made toward human-centered development. This time frame is very much reminiscent to the UNIVth Conference for Women held in Beijing in 1995 and the global effort to revisit it 30 years later in 2025. In both cases, the hope and optimism of the mid-1990s, when social integration, poverty eradication, and employment were declared the pillars of development, has dwindled as we witness brutal inequalites, environmental collapse, commodification of life and liveihoods, and the evisceration of the social contract. This is the reality that faces us as we approach WSSD + particularly with the gender-blind, conflict-ridden, and neoliberal logic that has shaped the last three decades
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