Emeritus Professor Jim Ife Centre for Human Rights Education Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia Inaugural Hokenstad International Social Work Lecture Council for Social Work Education San Francisco, October 2007 It […]
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HIV and AIDS
Information Type: PolicyTopic: Human RightsIntroduction HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic that affects individuals, families, and entire communities around the world and has profound social and economic implications. In 2004, the pandemic killed an estimated […]
Social workers seeking justice, but not revenge
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictA Call to Action Global Threat & Social Workers Response Since the devastating attacks on the United States we have witnessed a profoundly disturbing response from governments, politicians and sections […]
Urgently needed: Multi-faceted, non-violent approach to resolving world conflict
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictInternational Federation of Social Workers International Association of Schools of Social Work The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) call […]
Citizenship and Social Work Education in a Globalising World
Information Type: StatementTopic: EducationIASSW CONFERENCE 15-18 JULY 2002 MONTPELLIER GREETINGS FROM IFSW IMELDA DODDS PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS Distinguished Guests Dear Colleagues all, It is both an honor and a pleasure […]
Childrens right to education
Information Type: StatementTopic: ChildrenSTATEMENT of the INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS International non-governmental organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and social Council to the 58th Session of the COMMISSION ON HUMAN […]
Displacement, forced migration, and the effects of war
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictMessage to the 19th Social Work Day at the UN-New York 2002 Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the IFSW and your social work colleagues around the globe we extend to […]
IFSW appeal for support for the establishment of an independent and effective international criminal court
Information Type: StatementTopic: Human RightsSOCIAL WORK DAY UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK 15 April 2002 On the occasion of Social Work Day at the United Nations on April 15, 2002, the International Federation of Social […]
NGO Joint Statement on the war in Iraq to the UN Commission on Human Rights
Information Type: StatementTopic: Disaster, ConflictThe 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (Geneva, March 17 to April 25, 2003) NGO Joint Statement (Final version) Geneva, March 25, 2003 We, the undersigned Non-Governmental […]
Indigenous peoples
Information Type: PolicyTopic: Human RightsBackground Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights According to the United Nations (UN), there are at least 5,000 indigenous groups composed of 300 million people living in more than 70 countries […]
Resolution on Administrative Detentions
Information Type: ResolutionTopic: Human RightsGeneral Meeting, Adelaide, Australia 29 September – 1 October 2004 The General Meeting of IFSW, representing more than 470,000 social workers in 80 countries throughout the world, deplores the use […]
The UN day of the elimination of violence against women
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights, UNThe International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) is opposed to violence in all its forms. In recognising the UN Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women the IFSW calls […]
Ensure that the needs of the poorest are not forgotten in Cancun
Information Type: StatementTopic: Social ProtectionIFSW letter to the WTO and the G8 members in connection with the WTO-Meeting in Cancun, Mexico September 2003 We are writing to you as trade ministers from 146 countries […]
Letter of sympathy Sweden’s Foreign Minister Anna Lindh
Information Type: StatementTopic: IFSWWe cannot understand that a Swedish minister once more has been assassinated. The information yesterday evening that Anna Lindh had been stabbed at NK in Stockholm and the message this […]
Post War Iraq
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictDear Colleagues, We believe that it is important now that we focus on and turn world attention to what will occur once hostilities cease in Iraq. Many countries – and […]
Go on using your voice for peace
Information Type: NewsTopic: ConflictDear Colleagues The events of the past 24 hours bring a profound sadness over what will lay ahead for the people of Iraq and all those affected by this war. […]
Appeal to the UN Security Council on the Iraq Crisis
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictPresident and members United Nations Security Council Dear Sirs We write to you on behalf of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) representing 450,000 social work practitioners in 78 […]
The Iraq Crisis – A Peaceful Approach is Brave, Forward-looking and Wise
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictDear Friends and Colleagues We need not tell you that the current world situation is very serious. The prospect of a war against Iraq moves closer by the day. The […]
Letters to Bush, Blair and Howard
Information Type: StatementTopic: ConflictOPEN LETTER TO President George W Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington DC 20500 United States of America The Hon Tony Blair Prime Minister 10 Downing St […]
Displaced persons
Information Type: PolicyTopic: Human RightsIntroduction The displacement or forced migration of people within their own countries is today a common international phenomenon. Such migration may be caused by internal armed conflicts, situations of general […]