SOC/4436
12 February 1998
The Commission for Social Development should call on governments to take concrete steps to protect society's most vulnerable groups, speakers said this afternoon as the Commission continued general discussions on social integration through responsive government and broadening participation.
Concluding its thirty-fifth session yesterday night, 6 March, the Commission for Social Development called on countries and the international community to reinstate the attainment of full, productive and freely chosen employment as a central objective of economic and social policies.