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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 […]
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 […]
A 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 […]
IFSW 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 […]
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 […]
Our 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 […]
This 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 […]
OTTAWA, 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 […]
La 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 […]
Following 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 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 […]
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 […]
IFSW has launched a new dedicated area of its website to highlight its representation work at the United Nations. See it here. “We have teams of social worker’s volunteering as […]
The Conference of NGO – Board meets twice a year. This time it was connected with the meeting of NGO committee on the Status of Women – Beijing+20 (11/3-5/2014) in […]