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26.08.10
20.08.10
The United Nations has drawn attention to the increasing number of humanitarian workers around the world who suffer targeted attacks, intimidation and even murder ...
16.08.10
The online crisis-mapping platform Ushahidi has launched a simplified
service, a move co-founder Ory Okolloh said is "a landmark" in its short
history....
09.08.10
The number of people affected by the worst floods in living memory in Pakistan has been revised upward to 6 million, the United Nations announced on 8 August 2010,...
06.08.10
Image: Hiroshima's Peace Arch Memorial
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in commemorating the 65 anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima "Life is...
04.08.10
On July 29th 2010 in a historic vote, the United Nations General Assembly affirmed the human right to water and sanitation, citing concerns that nearly 900 million...
20.07.10
The largest global AIDS conference, which takes place in Vienna 18 to 23 July, emphasizes the central importance of protecting and promoting human rights as a...
16.07.10
The Global Peace Index (GPI) records less armed conflict, but increasing rates of homicide and violent crime across the world.
The Global Peace Index provides a...
13.07.10
The Council of Europe has published the Final Draft Guidelines on Child-Friendly Justice, which seek to improve the ways that children interact with the legal...
13.07.10
On Friday 2 July 2010, the UN General Assembly has voted to set up a body that will aim to improve the situation of women and girls around the world. The new body...
13.07.10
“Protecting children’s rights is a global responsibility that requires global commitment from us all, in every sector,” Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, ...
12.07.10
The celebration of National Workers' Day in Tunisia on 10 July was marked by a statement which stressed the importance given to social work in the country, ...
29.06.10
Social network sites like Facebook are changing what happens after adoption. At the click of a button, birth parents can contact their children – and vice versa –...
24.06.10
A joint report from Paris-based thinktank, the OECD, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), warns that food prices are set to rise as much as 40% over...
22.06.10
The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa is currently the biggest event in the country with an estimated half a million visitors. Across the country, fan parks known...
21.06.10
The first international standard to tackle discrimination against HIV/AIDS sufferers in the workplace won overwhelming approval from the International Labor...
08.06.10
Concern about some well publicised deaths of young people in care has created a big debate about support for vulnerable young people and social work in Ireland. ...
08.06.10
Sarah Collinson, Samir Elhawary and Robert Muggah
The international policy context and circumstances of humanitarian action have seen some significant changes...
03.06.10
CRIN has launched a new website which offers a shared platform for civil society on the follow-up to the UN Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Children ...
02.06.10
The Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Commission on Global Social Work Education has announced its seventh annual awards program that recognizes the...
25.05.10
'Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are suddenly in doubt', according to a recent report from New York T...
25.05.10
'Back office job cuts at Newcastle Council are today blamed for deadly social care failings', according to a report by Evening Chronicle.
Former regional...
25.05.10
According to a recently released report, state agency responsible for addressing child abuse and neglect has lost so much money to budget cuts that it can't meet...
19.05.10
Do you have experience of social work in the context of political conflict?
Are you willing to share this to help IASSW and IFSW?
Why we are proposing to...
19.05.10
The US Vice President Joe Biden spoke highly about the contribution of social workers to social change when he spoke at the degree ceremony involving his daughter,...
19.05.10
Four hundred US social work leaders, ranging from age 22 to 85, met in Washington, DC on April 22-23, 2010 to explore issues facing the 112-year-old profession of...
18.05.10
The International Association of Schools of Social Work and the African Association of Schools of Social Work have issued statements on the private member's Anti...
12.05.10
The Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Commission on Global Social Work Education announces the seventh annual awards program that recognizes the...
10.05.10
Nine out of ten social workers have suffered abuse, assaults and threats while councils recorded more than 45,000 incidents against social care workers in the last...
07.05.10
Before the leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries arrive in Ontario for the G8 and G20 summits in June 2010, a select group of young women from around the ...
03.05.10
Time Magazine has named Michael Sherraden, Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington...
22.04.10
Dorothy Height, a qualified social worker who, in an 80-year campaign for social justice, became the grande dame of the civil rights era and its great unsung hero,...
09.04.10
09.04.10
The Governor of the US state of Kansas has signed into law new legislation requiring safety training for every new social worker. Six years ago social worker Teri...
09.04.10
The Government of Brazil will host the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Salvador, from 12 to 19 April 2010. Pre-Congress...
03.03.10
A month after the 12 January earthquake that levelled densely populated areas of Haiti, UNICEF and its UN, government and NGO partners have organized a massive aid...
01.03.10
In 1975, during International Women's Year, the United Nations began celebrating 8 March as International Women's Day. Two years later, in December 1977, the ...
26.02.10
The online issue of "The Malta Independent" from February 26,2010 describes in an article the radically change of the public image of the social work profession ...
19.02.10
17 February 2010 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today added its voice to UN plaudits for the news that the international convention banning the...
22.01.10
Hundreds of tech volunteers spurred to action by Haiti's killer quake are adding a new dimension to disaster relief, developing new tools and services for first...
21.01.10
Voices of Youth (VOY), UNICEF's website for children and young people, is hosting an online discussion on Girls and Gender Equality. The discussion is part of a...
20.01.10
Around 300 actors in the field of poverty and social exclusion will be present at the opening conference of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social...
19.01.10
Precious is a new American drama film based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a sixteen-year-...
06.01.10
In an effort to harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world’s youth in overcoming the challenges facing humankind, from enhancing peace to boosting...
28.12.09
The Zambian deputy community development minister has bemoaned the lack of licensing and standard certification of social work practitioners in Zambia. “There is ...
10.12.09
Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December.
The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and...
11.11.09
The Association of Black Social Workers (ABSW) of Nova Scotia hosted an International Conference from September 23-27, 2009 at the Ramada Plaza. This is the first...
30.10.09
The volume of children who need care has not only increased in Botswana but the country is - like in other African countries - going through a process of rapid...
22.10.09
The UN World Food Program (WFP) as well as Non-Governmental Organisations take every effort to help the people after the terrible natural disasters. As part of the...
13.10.09
After a 1st Child focused Civil Society Forum which took place in April this year, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)...
05.10.09
Countries across Europe face common challenges in adapting their school system to the changes brought about by immigration. This is one of the result of a public...
25.09.09
New York, September 23
Despite the rhetoric about female empowerment, adolescent girls remain largely underserved in many areas of the world. More than 600...
14.09.09
8 September 2009 – The number of people hit by deadly floods across West Africa has now topped 600,000, and the heavy rains have also destroyed crops and...
14.09.09
UNICEF Press release
NEW YORK, 10 September 2009
UNICEF today released new figures that show the rate of deaths of children under five years of age ...
04.09.09
According to the United Nations 65'596 refugees were resettled worldwide in 2008, but the EU accepted just 4'378 or 6.7 %. The UN’s refugee agency has said that...
04.09.09
The UK based Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has published a research paper on how human rights have been used internationally to shape new conceptions of poverty...
02.09.09
Four months ago, the Nigerian President Yar'Adua and his government set up a National Working Committee on Social Security Policy for Nigeria. The new policy is ...
01.09.09
In the United Kingdom a new campaign has been launched to encourage people to become social workers. The campaign aims to show some of the real life issues which...
31.08.09
Picture: © ECPAT
Recent research suggests, that the problem of sex trafficking of children and young people is getting worse rather than better, and that...
28.07.09
Luanda July 27, 2009
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Client Support Service at the Luanda General Hospital, Francisca do Espírito Santo, Governor of...
20.07.09
On 15 July 2009 the EESC adopted an opinion calling for a binding European strategy for the protection of children from travelling sex offenders. Repeat offenders...
15.07.09
The main purpose of the new World Bank publication is to make available the accumulated knowledge of successful policy and analytical tools in this fight to reverse...
11.06.09
The General Council of Official Social Work Graduate and Social Worker Associations encourages all social workers, citizens and institutions (organisations,...
09.06.09
On occasion of the 60th anniversary celebration of Singapores' medical social work, the Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan of the country invited social workers to share...
08.06.09
Students, teachers, parents and public officers in Lagos State gathered at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa on Wednesday, to celebrate the first School Social...
02.06.09
The Amnesty International Report 2009 documents the state of human rights during 2008 country-by-country and provides a summary of each continent and the Middle ...
25.05.09
The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) published a new report on HIV Prevention of Mother-to- Child Transmission. In 2001 the worlds' governments...
18.05.09
A collaboration between the Journal "The Lancet" and University College London, UK, resulting in the first UCL Lancet Commission report, setting out how climate...
18.05.09
On May 12, 2009 the UN General Assembly elected 18 States to serve on the Human Rights Council for three-year terms starting next month, five of which will be...
18.05.09
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009
The World Bank has released the World Development Indicators (WDI) 2009. The publication tells the story through comprehensive data of...
13.05.09
The Handbook aims to promote understanding and effective implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of ...
12.05.09
The Philippine Association of Social Workers Inc. (PASWI) will be celebrating World Social Work Day on June 18, 2009 with a conference at the Bayview Hotel Manila,...
05.05.09
United States of America, Reno
The 27th Annual "Protecting our Children" US American Conferencen on American Indian child abuse prevention and neglect was held ...
04.05.09
In 2007 the 30 Members of the European Union has signed an agreement to set up a single 24-hour hotline for parents to report missing children. Calls to the ...
03.05.09
April, 22 2009
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) today releases results of the first ever EU-wide survey on immigrant and ethnic minority...
25.04.09
United Kingdom: Home care staff will be required to register promises England care services minister
United Kingdoms' Care services minister Phil Hope has pledged to “win back public confidence” in social care by extending compulsory registration to England’s 500...
22.04.09
The two organisations Plan International and Save the Children Sweden have announced the publication “Advancing Children's Rights - A Guide for Civil Society...
15.04.09
On World Health Day, 7 April 2009, IFHHRO launched its new guide The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health: A Guide for Civil Society in The Hague (the...
14.04.09
According to the Economist magazine, the world is facing a growing water shortage. IFSW President David N Jones has already identified pressure on the supply of ...
05.04.09
On April 2, 2009 the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan announced a Social Work accreditation board would be set up by his...
03.04.09
The world premiere of the Hallmark Hall of Fame film, "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler," which tells the story of the Polish-born heroine and social worker ...
24.03.09
The World Bank has established a website which analyses, among other things, the impact of the world financial crisis on poor countries and people.
Go to ...
22.03.09
A seven-day focus on the world's water crunch wound up Sunday with a pledge by more than 100 countries to strive for clean water and sanitation for billions in need...
20.03.09
Astana. March 17. Kazakhstan Today - Vice Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Erbol Orynbayev, informed during the government session this year more than 61 thousand...
19.03.09
The UN Commission for Social Development had its 47th session in New York from February 4 to 13. The chair has presented a summary focusing on the current global...
10.03.09
GABORONE - The president of the University of Botswana (UB) Social Work Society, Ms Buyani Moses has urged her colleagues to start making a contribution towards...
10.03.09
The European Commission has launched a campaign to address the continuing gender pay gap across Europe.
The campaign organisers say that while equal pay for equal...
10.03.09
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10.03.09
INDIAN BROOK — Some might disagree, but Joan Glode says she never accomplished anything on her own.
At least, that’s how she explains becoming a recipient of this...
10.03.09
4 March 2009 – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has demobilized 880 children associated with armed groups in the...
10.03.09
The global financial crisis is hitting the world’s poorest people the hardest and could lead to a rise in infant mortality, according to a new report from the UN...
09.03.09
GENEVA – Calling on governments to transcend political differences and work together to eliminate racism and xenophobia, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi...
04.03.09
The newest United Nations human rights treaty body, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, today concluded its first session, which was held from...
04.03.09
[NAIROBI, 27 February 2009] - A Congolese family uprooted by war went to court on Friday seeking to be reunited with a Kenyan baby they say they found abandoned on...
23.02.09
Photo: © Graham Turner
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is delighted to announce that Hilton Dawson has been appointed to succeed Ian Johnston as...
19.02.09
Guidelines have been developed to help governments prepare for disasters by making recommendations which build on and improve existing domestic laws.
As natural ...
19.02.09
The National Institute of Social Development functioning under the Social Services and Social Welfare Ministry is drawing plans to commence a Ph.D program in Social...
17.02.09
Director of the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS), Ip Peng Kin, said they were facing the shortage of social workers amid the on going expansion of their services.
The...
16.02.09
On February, 3 2009 the Social Work Reinvestment Act (H.R. 795) was reintroduced in the House of Representatives. The Act is designed to address challenges to the...
05.02.09
On October 9, 2008 the Government of Gibraltar, the Gibraltar General and Clerical Association (GGCA) and the Social Services Agency have signed an agreement on a...
04.02.09
The 9th World Social Forum or regionally also called “the Forum of the Amazon”, started January, 27 2009 with the traditional march with about 70 thousand...
02.02.09
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published a report of a High-Level Consultation on the relation between the actual Financial Crisis and Global Health. The...
02.02.09
UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank, UN Economic Commission for Europe, IDEAS (International Development Evaluation Association), IOCE (International...
02.02.09
An e-discussion on global public health will be hosted on MDGNet
from 29 January - 26 February 2009. It is being organized jointly by the Department for Economic...
02.02.09
The University of Birmingham is celebrating 100 Years of Social Work Education. On this occasion Prof. Ann Davis has published "Celebrating 100 Years of Social ...
29.01.09
JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 15 January 2009 - Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy...
29.01.09
Brazil is hosting the World Social Forum in January 2009. During six days, the city assumes the position of being the centre of planetary citizenship and a global...
28.01.09
The European Court of Human Rights has said it will hear an appeal into a case of alleged discrimination against children of Roma origin in Croatia.
The decision...
28.01.09
Geneva, 27 January 2009 – UNICEF’s 2009 Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) highlights the plight of children and women around the globe in humanitarian emergencies...
26.01.09
January, 26 2009
Millions of Chinese people around the world are celebrating the start of Lunar New Year. The Year of the Ox was greeted in many places in...
26.01.09
Picture: President of our Russian member organisation Dr. Antonina Dashkina at the Mercy Day Centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan opened by the Russian European Trust as...
25.01.09
The Human Rights Watch World Report 2009 is Human Rights Watch's nineteenth annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarises key human rights...
21.01.09
Spanish Constitutional Court recognised minors' right to defend them judicially if they have sufficient capacity and maturity. The decision was made January, 14 ...
06.01.09
Wall Street Journal: Monrovia, Liberia
Escalating hunger in African cities is forcing aid agencies accustomed to tackling
food shortages in rural areas to scramble...
05.01.09
A decision of the Australian courts indicates changing patterns of legal and social interaction. The court approved using Facebook, the famous social networking...
05.01.09
A picture with a girl in Cité Soleil, the largest slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, wearing a clean white dress and ribbons in her hair, despite being surrounded by...
26.12.08
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) releases its 11th list of the "Top Ten" humanitarian...
19.12.08
About 20,000 amateur welfare workers in Viet Nam are working with experience and heart, but without much-needed professional skills, according to Deputy Minister of...
16.12.08
The effects of climate change could create up to six million displaced people every year and at least 200 million by the middle of the century, says the UN Deputy...
15.12.08
Many child abuses cases in highly developed countries could be going undetected, according to a report by British medical journal, The Lancet in collaboration with...
15.12.08
The number of undernourished people worldwide is approaching the 1 billion mark, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced. The total number of ...
12.12.08
The Union of Professional Social Workers Talentia has a new president, Mr. Tero Ristimäki. He got elected by the National Board meeting held 29-30 November in...
10.12.08
The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us...
10.12.08
The European Commission launched a debate on the future shape of European disability policy ahead of the European Day of People with Disabilities on 3 December. The...
09.12.08
The UK government has announced a new taskforce to improve the quality and status of social workers in England following a number of child abuse tragedies which ...
08.12.08
Commonwealth citizens will urge Asian governments to move one step closer to ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with ...
08.12.08
The fundamental case for tackling the social causes of health inequalities worldwide is that it is a question of social justice. This key point made by Sir Michael...
08.12.08
A European body has warned of an increase in extremist and racist views across Europe coupled with a decline in public readiness to challege institutional racist...
08.12.08
English/ Francais
Social Work Act introduced in Manitoba, Canada
New legislation setting out proposed provisions for a professional college to regulate social...
08.12.08
Countries in Asia and the Pacific have reached unprecedented levels of prosperity, but millions of people are still mired in poverty and poor health, with no sign ...
05.12.08
Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan December 2 inaugurated the Hashemite University social work center.
The Queen underlined the importance of formulating a training...
03.12.08
Source: UNESCO
Paris, 25 November
Education is a basic human right. Yet across the world there are
vast disparities in education based on wealth, gender, ...
26.11.08
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on governments and organisations to do more to tackle human rights violations against women, which he says "undermine ...
26.11.08
Bollywood actress Kajol is to receive a prestigious Indian award in recognition of her work promoting social justice and social work.
The Karamveer Puraskar award...
25.11.08
Pre-Congress Information
25 to 28 November 2008
More than 3000 people from 5 continents are expected to participate in the "III World Congress Against Sexual...
25.11.08
November 20, 2008
A new planned U.N.-backed advocacy group aims to help child soldiers to escape and heal from war. The group will be launched by three former child...
19.11.08
November 19, 2008
Today's World Toilet Day shall increase attention to the bad sanitation situation in poor countries. UN expert Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque states...
19.11.08
The reelected Director-General of United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO) Juan Somavia has pledged to work to ensure social justice in his third term...
19.11.08
The Human Rights Committee of the Un General Assembly has adopted on November 18 an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
13.11.08
The Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a series of receptions and lectures that will kick off Friday,...
13.11.08
Although worldwide urban growth is expected to slow, a new report by UN-HABITAT is projecting the reverse in Africa with the continent’s urban population being...
13.11.08
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 12 November 2008—Development strategies that are sensitive to cultural values can reduce harmful practices against women and promote human...
12.11.08
Ministers of the European Union held a high-level meeting on October 16, 2008 in Marseille (France) to prepare the European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty and...
12.11.08
The 50th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will take place from January, 12 to January, 30 2009 at the Palais Wilson in Geneva.
On this ...
12.11.08
The President of the Australian Association of Social Workers Bob Lonne talks about the situation Australia faces with child protection workers. The fluctuation of...
12.11.08
The US TV network CBS is creating a TV drama about social work in New York. The drama will deal with the lives of social workers of New York. CBS signed a contract...
12.11.08
The Norwegian government plans to avoid all uncertainty with a draft of a new law to ban all corporal punishment of children. This uncertainty is based on a ...
12.11.08
The government of the United Kingdom has revealed a list of jobs limited to 200'000 which are open to immigrants outside the European Union. Beside others the list...
11.11.08
La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) celebró su 133º período ordinario de sesiones del 15 al 31 de...
10.11.08
Article: Andrzej Gocłowski, Social Worker, Warsaw, Poland
Historical background: 123 years after disappearing from the map
On November 11, 1918 the Regency...
06.11.08
In 2009, Europeans will elect a new European Parliament and a new
European Commission will be appointed. These elected and nominated
persons are going to shape the...
06.11.08
Despite strong economic growth that produced millions of new jobs since
the early 1990s, income inequality grew dramatically in most regions of
the world and is...
03.11.08
On the eve of the 60th anniversary conference of the Philippines Association of Social Workers, another province in the Philippines, Kalinga, has adopted the...
28.10.08
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said at a meeting with the UN Chief Executives at the UN Day October 24 that it is the potential of the current financial crisis to...
27.10.08
The World Health Report, launched in October, critically assesses the way that health care is organized, financed and delivered in rich and poor countries around ...
23.10.08
The European Parliament 22 October approved legislation granting temporary workers equal rights in terms of working hours, salary and holidays, ending a six-year...
23.10.08
The gulf between rich and poor has widened over the past two decades in more than three quarters of the countries which are members of the Organisation for Economic...
23.10.08
A new website on employment, social affairs and equal opportunities has been launched by the European Commission.
The site aims to explain how European Union...
22.10.08
The European Parliament 21 October agreed to quadruple the budget for the bloc's flagship academic mobility program, aiming to attract highly-qualified studnets and...
21.10.08
The global financial crisis could increase world unemployment by an estimated 20 million women and men, the Director-General of the International Labour Office ...
17.10.08
Tunisian Minister of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Tunisians Living Abroad Ali Al Shawesh arrived October 18, 2008 in Manama, Bahrain. The two countries will sign...
16.10.08
200 European experts from civil society and public authorities meet on October 16th 2008 in Paris for the 2nd European Day against trafficking in human beings to...
15.10.08
The European Union is to host its 7th Round Table talks on poverty and social exclusion on 15 and 16 October.
The organisers say that 16% of Europeans live below...
02.10.08
25 September 2008 – Government, business and civil society leaders gathered at the United Nations today to launch a global campaign to reduce malaria deaths,...
02.10.08
25 September 2008 – The United Nations has teamed up with world leaders to launch a new initiative to strengthen health systems in an effort to reduce the number of...
29.09.08
Realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is essential to reduce vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
—United Nations General Assembly Special Session on...
29.09.08
The head of the United Nations says the organisation has received an additional $16bn in aid pledges to help tackle global problems such as malaria, poverty and...
26.09.08
The International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) has launched a new website, along with the Millennium Campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the...
23.09.08
Social workers and health workers report the highest level of exposure to threats of workplace violence according to a new report from the European Foundation for...
05.09.08
Social factors — rather than genetics — are to blame for huge variations in ill health and life expectancy around the world, the WHO's Commission on Social...
05.09.08
A scheme to assist US citizens wanting to adopt babies from Vietnam has been indefinitely suspended after investigations uncovered widespread corruption and...
04.09.08
‘Raising standards: social work conduct in England 2003-2008’, published on 3 September 2008 is the first report on conduct activity from the General Social Care...
04.09.08
Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe, comprising eight to ten million people, and are also one of the most disadvantaged. They migrated from India to...
04.09.08
The government in Trinidad and Tobago has approved a number of Scholarships to attract persons into the field of Social Work.
Social Development Minister Dr. ...
04.09.08
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that world leaders cannot put off making progress on negotiating a new climate change deal to replace the Kyoto Treaty.
...
03.09.08
The High-level Event (HLE) on the Millennium Development Goals will take place at UN Headquarters on 25 September 2008. It will be jointly convened by the Secretary...
02.09.08
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the body of independent experts responsible for reviewing progress made by States parties in implementing the Convention ...
31.07.08
While there have been significant gains in preventing new HIV infections in a number of heavily-affected countries and reducing the number of AIDS-related deaths,...
29.07.08
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that he was “gratified” that his
nomination of South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the new United
Nations High Commissioner...
22.07.08
Durban - Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has challenged delegates attending the International Schools of Social Work Congress to look at ways of improving...
21.07.08
The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October each year as World Habitat Day. The idea is to reflect on the state of our towns and cities and the...
15.07.08
Durban - The ability of social worker to fulfil the needs of vulnerable in developing countries is expected to be discussed at the Schools of Social Work Congress...
14.07.08
UNICEF’s Executive Board has adopted the UNICEF Child Protection Strategy at its annual June session. The strategy outlines the contributions of UNICEF to national...
26.06.08
The European Commission has launched a new web portal regrouping existing information and services aimed to increase mobility of European researchers and improve...
23.06.08
Education International (EI), Oxfam and Public Services International (PSI) has made a call to world leaders on Public Services Day (June 23) to increase funds for...
18.06.08
The UN High Commission for Refugees has released a set of guidelines aimed at protecting and promoting the rights of children which fall under its mandate.
Based ...
12.06.08
In the aftermath of Myanmar’s Cyclone Nargis and in view of the ongoing global food crisis, the Forum’s President Kofi Annan has called together more than 200...
12.06.08
For the last 2 months the Israeli Social Workers Union has demanded that the Finance Ministry fund an additional 1,000 social work positions in the local...
10.06.08
The Social Situation Report is the European Commission's main tool for monitoring developments in the social field across the EU Member States. This is an annual...
29.05.08
Following on the previous news item dated 21/5/08 a consortium of South African social worker organisations led by Prof Visanthie Sewpaul of the University of...
27.05.08
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers has said that despite progress, "efforts to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers are too little and too ...
22.05.08
The global burden of disease is shifting from infectious diseases to noncommunicable diseases, with chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke now being ...
21.05.08
South Africa has been left in shock after an eruption of violence on a scale not seen since the end of apartheid. Anger at substantial immigrant populations –fellow...
16.05.08
Many countries are taking significant steps to tackle the issue of HIV/AIDS in the workplace and their new regulations could help in the fight against scourge,...
09.05.08
The Committee of Ministers has just adopted a new convention on child adoption, on the occasion of its 118th session in Strasbourg.
“The Convention updates the...
08.05.08
A new report from Save the Children UK has revealed for the first time the number of children worldwide who can not get access to health care when they need it....
07.05.08
05.05.08
The European Commission and EU Council have signed a joint recommendation to improve the mobility of learners and qualified workers in Europe.
The European...
05.05.08
Pope Benedict XVI has told the UN that the promotion of human rights remains "the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social...
24.04.08
The European Commission has signed an agreement with Brazil which paves the way for structured dialogue on improving social cohesion. In the Memorandum of...
24.04.08
Three new videos have been released by the EU's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, to promote and address three social...
21.04.08
With over 10 million women and children in developing countries still dying every year from largely preventable and treatable causes, a new report by United Nations...
17.04.08
Engineers at internet search engine Google have developed new software to help in tracking down child sex predators and search for patterns of abuse in images ...
17.04.08
A United Nations body has urged world leaders to reform farming rules to boost global agriculture and prevent a world food crisis. The call from the International...
17.04.08
World Bank president Robert Zoellick has said that the international community must "put our money where our mouth is" and provide immediate help for the world's...
04.04.08
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the entry into force of the first international treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, after the...
02.04.08
New statement in England describing "Social work at its best: The roles and tasks of social workers"
After over 18 months of consultation and consideration, the English General Social Care Council, working with partner organisations, has published a new statement...
20.03.08
The Irish Association of Social Workers said the failure of health authorities to fill vacant social work posts and recruit new social workers was putting ...
20.03.08
Agreement has been reached to set up a permanent Catholic-Muslim Forum - the first of its kind — which is to hold its inaugural summit meeting in the Vatican in...
20.03.08
This study from South Africa forms part of a series of studies on professions and professional education being conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council's...
12.03.08
The European Union's Social Protection Committee has endorsed a new report drawn up by the EU Taskforce on Child Poverty and Well-being.
The report uses commonly...
12.03.08
The Singapore Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) is working to strengthen social work services in Singapore and to professionalise the ...
12.03.08
Injuries resulting from drowning, suffocation and road accidents are among the leading killers of Asian children, according to groundbreaking research by the United...
07.03.08
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said 2008 must be dedicated to bringing the benefits of globalisation to the "bottom billion" of the world's poor.
Speaking...
07.03.08
The 'Stop Child Labour' campaign has launched an 18-point action plan to help businesses eradicate the use of child labour at any point in their chain of p...
07.03.08
The European Commission has announced the opening of a radio station to keep EU citizens up to date with news from Brussels and across Europe.
The multi-lingual...
07.03.08
A new Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has been opened in New York, with the aim of serving as "a catalyst for moving the responsibility to protect...
07.03.08
Many women are unable to benefit from post-war peace because they face the additional burden of finding out what happened to missing male relatives, says the...
04.03.08
Older people have often been overlooked in disasters and conflicts, and their concerns have rarely been addressed by emergency programs or planners. This analysis...
04.03.08
This report summarizes the evidence about women, ageing and health from a gender perspective and provides a framework for developing action plans to improve the...
26.02.08
Save the Children UK has published a report comparing child mortality rates with national income around the world. The report shows how many children's lives a...
26.02.08
Italian Global Health Watch (OISG) has produced a historical paper on the evolution of international health policies and institutions, from the birth of the World...
26.02.08
The UN Population Fund has made an appeal for nearly $500 million (£250 million) to help save the lives of millions of women in childbirth around the world.
UNFPA...
08.02.08
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today unveiled a new global fundraising and awareness campaign to benefit the nearly 60 million children around the...
08.02.08
UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has underlined the important role that employment and decent work play in promoting development and has urged greater...
07.02.08
Millions of carers in the European Union could win new rights to flexible work following a landmark ruling in the European Courts.
A British woman has won the...
07.02.08
The first large-scale international conference on human trafficking is to be staged in Vienna, Austria this month.
About 1,000 delegates from more than 100...
07.02.08
A group working on the development of a gel or cream barrier to the sexual transmission of HIV has been granted permission by drugs company Pfizer Inc PFE.N to use...
30.01.08
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on militaries and groups that make use of child soldiers.
According to a new...
30.01.08
More than 1,000 representatives are meeting in Bali, Indonesia this week (from 28th January) for a review of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
Opening...
25.01.08
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France discriminated against a lesbian nursery school teacher by refusing to let her adopt a child. The judges...
24.01.08
GENEVA (ILO News) – Economic turbulence largely due to credit market turmoil and rising oil prices could spur an increase in global unemployment by an estimated 5...
24.01.08
The new handbook is designed to be an easy and portable international reference guide to indicators of health care and health economicw with "economic" defined...
24.01.08
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children (GIEACPC) has published a new guide to legal reform to support states in prohibiting all corporal...
24.01.08
The UN General Assembly decided in 2005 that the United Nations will designate 27 January -– the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp -- as an...
24.01.08
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Goodwill Ambassador and Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman was the first to add her name to a new...
24.01.08
With some 26,000 children under the age of five dying every day, bolstered strategies are crucial to save lives, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in...
21.01.08
Projects aimed at promoting understanding among cultures in the areas of media and youth were among the key initiatives launched at the United Nations-backed...
21.01.08
Acknowledging that migration is an “explosive and often divisive” political issue in many nations, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today...
19.01.08
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At present a war is taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and more people have died there than in...
18.01.08
A fifth of the children in the EU live in poverty, a new report has concluded. Yet despite such widespread hardship in one of the most economically advanced parts ...
18.01.08
The Grand Mufti of Syria this week told Members of the European Parliament that he did not believe in the conflict of cultures because "we are all building one...
18.01.08
A report released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the United Kingdom indicates that being poor in the United Kingdom can mean being subjected to discrimination...
07.01.08
As 14 countries (Bangladesh, Croatia, Cuba, El Salvador, Gabon, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, South Africa and Spain) now have...
07.01.08
A group of Austrian social workers have in a project formulated a declaration against the increasing economisation and de-professionalisation of social work by new...
07.01.08
A big year for child rights came to a climax in December 2007 with the follow-up to the UN Special Session on Children in New York. Many participants agreed that ...
04.01.08
A recent UN report, the World Youth Report 2007 - Young People's Transition to Adulthood: Progress and Challenges, has found that despite today’s young people being...
02.01.08
Reducing infant mortality and chronic malnutrition, mitigating the impact of natural disasters, and slashing the toll of domestic violence, sexual exploitation and...
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