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Silvana Martínez, President of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), presents The People’s Global Summit. Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind. https://newecosocialworld.com/ This summit will take […]
IFSW wish all it’s members and social workers worldwide a happy new year. Major developments have taken place in 2021 under our global theme Ubuntu: ‘I am Because We Are’. […]
It is a crucial time for governments and people across the world to come together and take serious action to address this existential threat. Having access to safe, clean, healthy […]
The people’s summit invites everyone to share and advance their ideas and contributions to shape the Global Values Declaration for a new eco-social world. Individuals and community representatives, people of […]
The Human Rights Commission of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), on Human Rights Day 2021 and the 73rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, expresses its […]
RHEINFELDEN, Switzerland (December 10, 2021) — The International Federation of Social Workers announces the establishment of the IFSW Social Work at the United Nations Initiative at Monmouth University in the […]
Why is this survey so important for social work in all parts of the world? ‘Working conditions affect everybody´, said Silvana Martinez, IFSW President, ´and we know that social workers […]
The 2021 United Nations Theme for Human Rights Day is ´EQUALITY – Reducing inequalities, advancing human rights´. The International Federation of Social Workers and World Federation of Public Health Association […]
#NewEcoSocialWorld #PeopleSummit Registration is now open to The People’s Global Summit. Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind 29th June to 2nd July 2022 – Online. IFSW International […]
The 2022 World Social Work Day Poster Launched The 2022 World Social Work Day Poster was launched today. It highlights the theme ´Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One […]
The next World Social Work Day takes place on the 15th March 2022. The theme: ´Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind´ coincides with the theme of the […]
Draft Minutes of General Meeting July 2022. Click Here The IFSW 2022 General Meeting (GM) will be held as an online forum on our website on the 14th, 15th and […]
The IFSW a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council issued the following statement to the UN 60th Session of the Commission for Social Development. The […]
IFSW is co-facilitating the ´Co-Building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind´ people´s summit. Today’s press release (link), issued by the summit partners, invites all people globally to contribute […]
People across the globe are inviting world leaders to join them in working together towards creating a new eco-social world as we emerge from the pandemic. The people’s summit ‘Co-Building a New Eco-social World: Leaving No One Behind´ takes place next June (link). Through our representative organisations, 100s of […]
COSW is inviting proposals and abstracts for a webinar in March 2022 on the history and development of social work across the Commonwealth. Abstracts of proposed papers for this conference […]
Founded in 2004 as the The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, the journal aims to examine the ethical and values issues that impact and are interwoven with social […]
Join the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and Children and Families Across Borders on Wednesday 15th September from 1-4pm UTC for the upcoming conference, The social service workforce in and […]
IFSW has just published a new resource comprising vignettes depicting ethical challenges faced by social workers internationally during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each vignette is accompanied by a series of questions […]
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) shares the concern of all people of goodwill about the humanitarian crisis affecting so many people in Afghanistan. The United Kingdom has a […]