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SWSD Book Launch
At the opening of the Social Work and Sustainable Development Joint World Conference in Dublin, IFSW is proud to launch the second volume of an …
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IFSW is delighted to launch a new website
IFSW Secretary-General, Rory Truell said: Developing this new website has been a significant undertaking for an organisation with very limited resources and a less than …
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Spanish social workers have offered to collaborate in the welcoming to the people who have arrived to Valencia inside the ‘Aquarius’
The Spanish General Council of Social Work (CGTS) and the 36 Professional Bodies of Social Work throughout the territory and ratify their commitment to defend …
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COSW Ensures Social Work Voice and Concerns are Heard During Commonwealth Summit
The Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW), which is accredited to IFSW, ensured that the concerns of social workers were raised during the recent Commonwealth …
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Pronunciamiento De Regíon América Latina y El Caribe De La FITS, COLACATS y ALAIETS Sobre Política Migratoria De Cero Tolerancia De Estados Unidos De Norte América
La Federación Internacional de Trabajo Social para la Región de América Latina y el Caribe (FITS ALC), el Comité Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Organizaciones de …
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United States withdraws from UNHRC: IFSW HRC Statement
IFSW is concerned that the United States of America under the Trump administration has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This action …
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World Refugee Day: Message from IFSW President Ruth Stark
No-one chooses to be a refugee Children, adults, families and communities seek refuge from disasters, climate change and inhumane abuse of power and control. This …
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UN Special Rapporteur Thanks IFSW for Support of Palestinian Social Worker
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 …
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Social Work in Latin America
IFSW Secretary-General Rory Truell and the Latin America and Caribbean Regional President Silvana Martinez met with social workers in El Salvador last month and Cuba last …
Read moreSocial Work and Non-Violent Resistance
IFSW Secretary-General, Rory Truell talks with Palestinian social worker Munther Amira who this week was released from an Israeli military prison for non-violently protesting to …
Read moreDeclaración De FITS-ALC y Colacats Por Acontecimientos En Nicaragua
“Today, social workers from BASW became our common voice on making visible the impact of austerity”
Social workers from Europe endorse the “Boot Out Austerity marches on – Blackwood to Cardiff, June 2018” and consent to the message sent by social …
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IFSW European President Participates in the III International Seminar on Unaccompanied Minors, in Melilla (Spain)
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. …
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The School Services Sourcebook
The School Services Sourcebook is a comprehensive resource that covers the most important ant timely information needed for school based practices. It is a unique …
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Environmental Social Work
Social work has been ‘defined’ as a profession of many faces; an art and a science, whose knowledge base is eclectic. The increasing incidence of …
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Social and Caring Professions in European Welfare States
This is a book edited by 3 colleagues from the Department of Social Work at Umeå University, a city in the North of Sweden and …
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Social Change And Social Work: The changing societal conditions of social work in time and place
This work, described as a ‘jubilee anthology’, is written by a group of contributors united through their commitment to scholarship and their research network connection …
Read moreIFSW Regional President Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Silvana Martinez Today the Andrés Bello University in El Salvador presented Silvana Martinez with an Honorary Doctorate for ‘Dignifying the Social Work Profession’. The award …
Read morePronunciamiento De La Región América Latina y El Caribe De La FITS y Colacats Por Acontecimentos En Puerto Rico
Las organizaciones miembros de la Región América Latina y El Caribe de la Federación Internacional de Trabajadores Sociales (FITS) y el Comité Latinoamericano y Caribeño …
Read moreInternational Labour Day Message from the PUSWP
The first of May is not a day to celebrate as much as a bell that beats in the minds of people and society to …
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