Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the global community to invest in social justice in an effort to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies worldwide.

“We can achieve lasting peace and sustainable development on the foundation of social justice. We must invest in social justice in our efforts to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies worldwide,” she said, addressing the Plenary of “World of Work Summit 2023” at Palais de Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

She said that the summit, with the launch of the Global Coalition, has created an opportunity to place social justice at the heart of all international development agenda, including SDGs.

In this context, Sheikh Hasina made five suggestions from Bangladesh’s viewpoint.

In her first point, she said that it would be advisable to develop the Coalition as a consultative or advocacy platform rather than as a norm-setting or negotiating forum.

Secondly, the Coalition must guard against weaponising “social justice” by one international quarter against the other in the current geopolitical context, she said.বিস্তারিত