International Federation of Social Workers
Global Online conference
The aim of the conference, organized by the UNED (Spanish Open University), was to deepen on migrant minors at the local, national, and global level. Well known international experts participated, […]
Young people declaring themselves unaccompanied minors: place and function of the social service assistant Opinion of the National Association of Social Work Assistants on the treatment of young people declaring […]
In July members of the Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work, an organisation affiliated with IFSW, met with Commonwealth Youth Ministers in Uganda. See their report here.
Written by Mag. Josef Hiebl, DSP – Translation by Dunja Gharwal, MA Introduction: Every year more than ten thousand children from the war regions of the Middle East, Asia and […]
Earlier this year IFSW was able to provide US$1000.00 to the General Union of Yemeni Social and Psychosocial Workers to provide training for social workers that would enable support to […]
The number of child migrants entering Europe on their own is higher than ever before; almost 90,000 unaccompanied children sought asylum in the European Union in2015 (Eurostat). Some have no […]
Report on the meeting
An article in the Guardian written by IFSW Secretary-General, Rory Truell, highlights the key roles of social work in Romania’s development. Follow this link to the Guardian. Related content: IFSW News […]
The International Federation of Social Workers is pleased to join the global celebrations today on Universal Children’s Day, 20 November. Today also marks the UN General Assembly adoption of the […]
IFSW President Ruth Stark writes about social work values when supporting child refugees entering the UK. “Finally, after years and months of waiting, the UK government has conceded it has […]
David Davies, Conservative MP for Monmouth in Wales, has welcomed unaccompanied children who have finally been allowed into the UK from Calais with a loud questioning of whether they are […]
International Conference and Social Work Professionals’ Congress on ‘Social Work Intervention against Drug Abuse among Children’ Date: November 7-8, 2016 Venue: BCM College, Kottayam, Kerala Report
YGUSSWP-report
(Co-sponsored by the Japanese Center for Social Welfare Promotion and National Examination via the Japanese Coordinating Body for IFSW Membership) Program brochure Program schedule by the Japanese Coordinating Body (JCB) […]
IFSW is concerned by the continuing detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails and this follows our previous Statement made on Human Rights Day in 2014, endorsing UNICEF’s call for Palestinian […]
Dear European Heads of State or Government and Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, Dear Mr. Tusk, Significant numbers of children from third countries migrate to Europe, for a […]
On 22nd of September, during the regular Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Working Group on «Children without Parental Care» held a Side Event promoting the need to […]
On 22nd of September, during the regular Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the Working Group on «Children without Parental Care» held a Side Event promoting the need to […]
250 survivors of abuse in children’s homes, boarding schools and foster homes formed a lobby within the Houses of Parliament in London. Arranged through John Mann, MP, survivors, supporters, journalists, […]
At our General Meeting in Melbourne, Australia in July 2014 IFSW we approved guidance for social workers working with sexual abuse. Colleagues from throughout the world spoke to the issues […]