IFSW Secretary-General, Dr Rory Truell speaking on social work perspectives and experiences in advancing human rights in an interview with ANZASW.
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Palestinian Social Workers Oppose Cuts to UNRWA
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, Social Work, UN, ConflictStatement by Palestinian union for social workers and psychologists Palestinian union for social workers and psychologists is following closely the hard and harmful decision that UNRWA has implemented in Gaza strip and West Bank which reduces services and project assistance. In addition, UNRWA has decided to end more than 1000 jobs (956 in Gaza and […]
IFSW at the United Nations High Level Political Forum 2018
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN
Dr Sebastian Cordoba represented IFSW at the United Nations’ High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in July, advocating for greater government action and highlighting the important role that social workers have in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The HLPF is an annual event where for eight days member states and key non-government […]
UN Special Rapporteur Thanks IFSW for Support of Palestinian Social Worker
Information Type: NewsTopic: IFSW, UN
Michael Lynk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in OHCHR has thanked IFSW for its support of Munther Amira who last week was released from 6 months imprisonment for peacefully protesting for children’s rights. The international social work profession took immediate action when Mr Amira was arrested last year. In addition, more than 15’000 people signed […]
United Nation Geneva Celebration of World Social Work Day
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN, World Social Work DayA speech given by Ana Rădulescu, European Vice President of IFSW to the United Nations Geneva on World Social Work Day Dear Mr Møller, Director General, United Nations Office at Geneva, Dear guests, Dear social workers and students in social work, I would like to welcome you all here today on our World Social Work […]
IFSW Representative to the UN Geneva, Priska Fleischlin on 2018 International Women’s Day
Information Type: NewsTopic: UNIFSW Meets with UN Office for Human Rights
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, UNIFSW Secretary-General Rory Truell and IFSW Representative in Geneva Priska Fleischlin met today The UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Kate Gilmore. In the meeting, it was agreed that that there was a need to explore developing a partnership between the Commission and the Federation to strengthen the capacity of each organisation. Kate […]
IFSW joins in drafting recommendations for UNHCR on the needs of older refugees
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN
In December 2016, the 193 Member States of the United Nations signed the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. Since then, civil society organizations took part on the thematic discussion and submitted proposals and recommendations so that the global compact (the outcome document) becomes a comprehensive roadmap for all governments. IFSW was actively engaged […]
IFSW Europe President, Ana Lima, on WSW Day at the UN – Geneve
Topic: UN, World Social Work DayOur President, Ana Lima-Fernandez, together with Rory Truell, General secretary of IFSW celebrated WSW Day 2017 participating in the event on Social Work and Sustainable Development at the UN in Geneva. Every year in March people throughout the world celebrate World Social Work Day. The International Association of Schools of Social Work (www.iassw-aiets.org) and the […]
IFSW UN Team Challenges UN Classification of Social Work Education
Information Type: NewsTopic: Education, UNThis week IFSW was alerted that social workers in Colombia have been demonstrating in the streets against their government’s educational reforms that have reclassified social work away from the field of ‘social sciences’ and intends to move their Social Work Education Departments under the health and well being disciplines. Colombian social workers fear that moving […]
CASW Commends Decision to Adopt UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, UNOTTAWA, May 10, 2016 – IFSW member The Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) commends the federal government’s decision to officially adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Canada was one of only four countries that voted against the Declaration when it was passed in 2007. In her announcement, the Honourable Carolyn […]
Tolérance zéro pour les mutilations sexuelles imposées aux femmes… Une prise de position de la Fédération Internationale du Travail Social (IFSW)
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, UNLa Fédération Internationale du Travail Social (IFSW) publie un communiqué en soutien à l’Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) pour mettre fin aux mutilations génitales féminines (MGF). À la suite de la Journée internationale des Nations Unies de tolérance zéro pour les mutilations génitales féminines, tenue le 6 Février 2016, l’IFSW continue de soutenir cette initiative. “On […]
IFSW supports the United Nations in ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, UNFollowing the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, held on 6 February 2016, IFSW continues to support this initiative. Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons and is recognised internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls […]
HRC Side Event Promoting the Need to Prevent Unnecessary Family Separation
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN, Children
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 prevent unnecessary family separation. All around the world, millions of children and their families encounter huge difficulties due to various reasons, including political, economic, health […]
HRC Side Event Promoting the Need to Prevent Unnecessary Family Separation
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN, Children
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 prevent unnecessary family separation. All around the world, millions of children and their families encounter huge difficulties due to various reasons, including political, economic, health […]
Open Ended intergovernmental Working Group (OEiWG) on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Respect to Human Rights
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN, Law
This report aims to provide Social Workers with information about this event and to support them in their daily work of empowering victims of human rights abuses by transnational corporations. After introducing the topic, a brief summary of the four day panel discussions and side events will follow before this report ends with recommendations. By […]
UN Women flagship report
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, UN
Twenty years after the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and at a time when the global community is defining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the post-2015 era, the international consensus on the need to achieve gender equality seems stronger than ever before. Empowering women and girls is among the goals aspired […]
World Social Day at the United Nations New York
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN, World Social Work Day
This week IFSW organized a World Social Day event at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York. More than 500 social workers, educators, students and United Nations officials attended to celebrate the achievements of social workers worldwide. Angelo McCain from The National Association of Social Workers USA spoke passionately about the importance of social workers […]
IFSW Intern Participates in 25th Anniversary of the Adoption of the CRC at UN Headquarters
Information Type: NewsTopic: UN, ChildrenThe Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty adopted by the United Nations on November 20, 1989, establishing global standards to ensure the protection, survival, and development of all children, without discrimination. Countries that ratify the treaty pledge to protect children from economic and sexual exploitation, violence, and other forms of […]
IFSW Welcomes the Guardian & UN Campaign to promote awareness of the effects of FGM
Information Type: News, Website/Useful LinkTopic: Human Rights, UN
In Kenya, on 31st October 2014, Ban Ki-Moon and the Guardian launched a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of the harm caused through FGM and to work together towards elimination of this destructive practice affecting 130 million women and girls across the world. The plan is to encourage the media, in all its forms, to […]
