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Priska Fleischlin
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Main Representative
Main area of work at the UN: Ageing

Short description of work at the UN:
Priska Fleischlin graduated with a Masters of Science in Social Work in Lucerne, Switzerland. Her Bachelor and Master Thesis were focused on the ‘Social Worker’s Empowerment in developing aid’ and ‘Cohesion in transnational transdisciplinary Project-Teams.’ Concerning the latter topic, she also analyzed the conversation of virtual meetings.
As a representative of the IFSW to the United Nations she focuses mainly on Ageing because of her working experience with elderly people for more than ten years. Those over the ages of 60 are the world’s fastest growing age-group, mostly in developing countries. Worldwide, Social Workers view the elderly as a heterogeneous group: They range from those with great agility and independence to the very vulnerable with high-maintenance needs. As a professional Social Worker, it is of great importance to Priska Fleischlin to represent the Human Rights of these individuals in order to protect their dignity and well-being.

Klaus Kühne
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Representative
Main area of work at the UN: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Short description of work at the UN:
Klaus Kühne is IFSW Main Representative at the UN in Geneva. He deals with Economic, Cultural and Social Rights with a particular focus on Social Protection Floors.

Tobias Roosen
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Representative
Main area of work at the UN: Refugees

Short description of work at the UN:

  • 36 years membership of trade unions
  • 30 years of working in different directions of Social Work
  • 18 years of experience in working with intercultural client ship
  • 15 years member of a political Party in Switzerland
  • 11 years of working for the Public Service Sector
  • 10 years of working in the public social welfare
  • 8 years of working with Refugees and Asylum seekers, from different countries, from different ethnicities and of different age, in Switzerland
  • 8 years in representing IFSW at United Nations Office Geneva
  • 7 years member of the National Commission on Social Affairs of the political party
  • 6 years of experience in developing, working and managing of NGO’s
  • 4 years of experience in managing a regional trade union
  • 4 years in teaching the IFSW/IASSW Global Standards and the AvenirSocial Code of Ethics at Schools of applied studies
  • 2 years head of the National Commission on Social Affairs of the political party; experience in political campaigning

Pascal Rudin
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Representative
Main area of work at the UN: Children’s Rights and Protection

Short description of work at the UN:
My name is Pascal Rudin, I’m a social worker and sociologist and am dealing with social, cultural and economic components of contemporary constructions of childhood. As a representative to the United Nations in Geneva, the advancement of human rights of the child designates the core of my commitment. Health, education and foster care of children form my priorities, both in research as well as in advisory functions. I am committed to social work practice which holds up the human rights of the child.

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