- October 10, 2024The Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW) will play a key role in advancing social work perspectives at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa from 20 to 26 October 2024, with indispensable support from associations in Aotearoa New Zealand and Fiji.
- October 8, 2024IFSW United Nations representatives Sebastian Cordoba, Evelyn Tomaszewski and Anne Deepak attended the UN’s Summit of the Future (as part of the General Assembly High-Level Week) and parallel events advocating urgent action to address inequality, human rights protections, global conflicts and climate change.
- October 8, 2024IFSW is pleased to announce a series of webinars, in collaboration with the Identity Rights Working Group, aimed at addressing access to justice for children whose identity rights have been contravened.
- September 26, 2024We are pleased to invite you to the online book launch of Social Work as a Global Profession: Handbook for Teaching and Learning, on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024, from 12:15 to 13:15 Central European Time (CET).
- September 26, 2024A statement from the IFSW Indigenous Commission: Orange Shirt Day commemorates the many Indigenous children who were taken from their families and communities and placed in board schools as a tool of assimilation and dispossession from their lands.
- September 25, 2024Mohammed Al-Sharif talked with IFSW Secretary-General Rory Truell on his life in Gaza today: More than 11 years ago I quoted Mohammed Al-Sharif, a social worker in Gaza during a time of indiscriminate bombing of Gaza (https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2012/dec/06/social-work-gaza-peace).
- September 19, 2024The Social Work History Network (UK) and the Social Welfare History Group (USA) are pleased to announce an upcoming online event on 24 September 2024, at 19:30 BST (UK) / 14:30 EDT (USA).
- August 29, 2024Social workers along with colleagues from other professions are taking a stand for children's identity rights through the Identity Rights Working Group based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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World Social Work Day is on the 19th of March 2024. It is the key day in the year that social workers worldwide stand together to advance our common message globally.
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