C-Fam Submission to ECOSOC at the 54rd session of Commission for Social Development, New York, 3-12 February 2016 

There is an urgent need to re-orient international policy towards strengthening and protecting the family. Rethinking social development in the 2030 era of sustainable development must begin and end with the family. Only by doing so can sustainable development, in all its dimensions —social, economic, and environmental —become a reality. Sadly, the Sustainable Development Goals and the summit outcome “Transforming Our World” that launched the 2030 era of sustainable development ignores the family as a subject of rights and an essential vehicle to promote sustainable development. We are troubled by this omission. The family is uniquely suited as a vehicle to promote the social and economic wellbeing of its members as well as society at large, within a framework of sustainability, and thereby fulfil their human rights in the social and economic sphere while respecting nature and the environment. 

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