The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity By Isabel Ortiz, Odile Frank and Gabriele Koehler Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025-world-social-summit-must-not-missed-opportunity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2025-world-social-summit-must-not-missed-opportunity GENEVA / NEW YORK, May 29 2025 (IPS) - Rumors circulating at UN Headquarters suggest there is little appetite for ambition at the Second World Summit for Social Development, set to take place in Doha on 4-6 November 2025. Diplomats and insiders whisper of “summit fatigue” after a packed calendar of global gatherings—the 2023 SDG Summit, the 2024 Summit of the Future, and the upcoming June 2025 Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development. Compounding this fatigue is the chilling rise of anti-rights rhetoric and political resistance from some governments, casting a shadow over multilateral efforts. For some, just getting any multilateral agreement is good enough. As a result, the Zero Draft of the Social Summit Political Declaration lacks the ambition required to confront the multiple social crises our world faces. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service