Social development is about empowerment of human person.
It touches everyone s life. The Universal Declaration on Human Rights enjoins that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services. The World Summit for Social Development reflected international community s vision to creating a just and equitable world for all. The five year review of the implementation of the Outcome of the Summit at the 24th Special Session of the General Assembly in Geneva this June indicated that since Copenhagen existing inequalities within and among countries have been further aggravated, poverty has deepened, social exclusion and social disintegration have increased. Recent statistics indicate that world wide 1.6 billion people are worse off than they were 15 years ago.