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UNRISD is an autonomous United Nations agency that carries out research on social dimensions
of contemporary problems affecting development.



Film on "Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social" Now Online
Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social is the first of six films in the series "Bringing the Social to Rio+20". ... more
UNRISD Tribute to Khoo Khay Jin (1948 - 2011)
The community of social science scholars in Malaysia and around the world is saddened at the news of the death of Khoo Khay Jin, an outstanding social scientist, a leading public intellectual and an out-of-the-box thinker.... more
New Series of Papers on the Social Dimensions of Green Economy and Sustainable Development
UNRISD has just published the first papers in a new series on the Social Dimensions of Green Economy and Sustainable Development. ... more
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