Int'l Organizations & UN News #1/2023

Co-hosted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Catalyst 2030, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and SAP, this session brings private, public, and social sector leaders together to discuss the role of the social and solidarity economy in advancing decent work and sustainable development. Two winners of the Collective Social Innovation Award, the first of its kind, will also join this session which will be an interactive conversation on the power of partnership to unlock the social economy.

Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South

Drawing on evidence from a recently published Dejusticia book entitled Migration and Decent Work: Challenges for the Global South, this hybrid roundtable brings together representatives from the UN system, Members States,  International Organizations and civil society to examine the challenges of ensuring that migrants in the Global South have both the right to work and decent working conditions.

The second in a series of United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) migration policy roundtables, the event will focus on policy and practice efforts aimed at:

• Ensuring that migrants, including refugees, have access to the labour market
• Reducing poor working conditions, insecurity, and discrimination
• Identifying remedies for exploitation, forced labour, and wage theft.

A UNU-CPR policy brief summarizing the key themes and recommendations will be published online following the event and circulated to all participants.

Join the CSIS Americas Program for a timely and important conversation on Mining, Climate Risks, and the Western Hemisphere.

Rapidly growing demand for clean energy technologies has made apparent the need for a mining renaissance in order to enable the carbon transition. Many of the critical technologies needed to achieve net-zero emissions, from electric vehicles to renewable energy-capture infrastructure, all necessitate large inputs of minerals and metals. Indeed, the average electric car requires six times the mineral inputs compared to fossil fuels, while the average American is estimated to consume three million pounds of minerals, metals, and fuels over their lifetime. However, meeting demand in a sustainable and secure manner requires a critical examination of mining supply chains, from social and environmental concerns to geopolitical factors stemming from China's dominance in mineral processing, to the long time horizons associated with identifying and scaling up new mines.

This event aims to explore two key challenges in regard to access to justice for refugees. First, too often governments and aid organizations lack sufficient and specific data to identify the justice needs of refugees, internally displaced, and host communities. Second, there are barriers to translating analysis into action.  Once the specific needs of displaced persons are identified, the focus must shift to delivering fair outcomes. This event aims to explore these challenges in knowledge and practice, shed light on the importance of collecting data on the justice needs of displaced populations, and identify ways to translate evidence into action by discussing the role national and international actors can take to ensure access to justice for all. In particular, the event will present and discuss two initiatives:

• The recent justice needs surveys conducted by HiiL in partnership with UNHCR, in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso targeting IDPs, refugees, and host communities.
• The baseline exercise jointly implemented by UNHCR, UNDP and other UN Agencies with the technical support of JIPS (Joint IDP Profiling Service) for joint analysis and programming in Darfur, Sudan. 

After initial presentations, a panel of experts from the justice and refugee sectors will contextualize these studies and their implications for advocacy and policymaking, followed by an open discussion.

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) is seeking  motivated interns to support the work of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. The interns can take up assignments with any team in the Office, including the Strategic Planning and Monitoring Unit; the Political, Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Human Rights Unit; the Rule of Law Unit; the Sustainable Development Unit; the Policy Advisor’s Office; or other units.

Interns report to full-time professional staff and focus on one of the three tracks set out under Responsibilities.

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The Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) / Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) internship is for two months with the opportunity for extension up to a total of six months, depending on the needs of the Division.

The internship is UNPAID and full time. Interns work five days per week (35 hours) under the supervision of a staff member in the department or office to which they are assigned.

The DMSPC/BTAD Analytics and Project Management team develops dashboards and other online platforms to support monitoring and reporting on performance; promotes business innovation and new ways of working, taking a long-term view of how the UN’s business model is aligned with evolving mandates, changing operational environments, as well as changes in the workplace and society-at-large; coordinates portfolio of transformational projects, ensuring projects are designed, communicated and implemented according to best practices in change and project management.

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The internship with the Inter-organizational and Inter-institutional Support Branch (IISB) of the Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development (OISC) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) is for two months, with an opportunity for extension, pending on the needs of the Department.

The internship is UNPAID and full time.

Interns work five days per week (35 hours) under the supervision of a staff member in IISB to which they are assigned.

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