1 week Ago By Qatar Tribune
Qatar tribune Tribune News Network Doha Participants at the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which concluded yesterday in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, adopted the draft “Tashkent Declaration”, which has emphasized the need to place social development and justice at the heart of global parliamentary priorities. This is in preparation for the Second World Summit for Social Development, to be hosted by the State of Qatar in November 2025. Participants also emphasized that accelerating global challenges require long-term reform visions and effective international cooperation.
They expressed their gratitude to the Parliament of Uzbekistan for hosting the Assembly’s work, affirming that the upcoming Doha Summit will be a turning point in formulating a new international charter for social development, consistent with contemporary requirements and ensuring justice and dignity for all peoples. Participants expressed their hope that Qatar’s hosting of this summit will provide an opportunity to enhance international parliamentary cooperation and consolidate collective commitments to building a more just, balanced, and sustainable future. The declaration included an explicit call to recalibrate economic and social policies and intensify parliamentary efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, most notably eradicating poverty and hunger, ensuring quality education, universal healthcare, gender equality, social justice, and building strong and transparent institutions.
The declaration emphasized that social development cannot be achieved automatically, but rather requires a profound legislative commitment that promotes investment in people, consolidates principles of equity, and strengthens national institutions, in addition to consolidating the values of community solidarity, empowering women, combating discrimination, and bridging the digital and social divide. Copy 10/04/2025 10.
