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IFSW Secretary-General's New Year Message
Information Type: NewsTopic: IFSW
…Social Work and Social Development theme: Promoting Community and Environmental Sustainability. Subsequently, many examples binding together strengthening communities and protecting the environment have secured practice understandings, and embedded climate justice…
Social work has a critical role to play in transformational change in co-building our shared futures
Information Type: NewsTopic: Environment, Conference
…human rights – have not been realized. Inequalities and fractures have grown. Poverty sits alongside extreme wealth. Nature has been stripped, leading to climate warming and environmental destruction. Millions of…
IFSW UN Commission - Statement on Human Rights Day
Information Type: News, StatementTopic: Human Rights, Social Work
…and the realisation of peace and security. IFSW also acknowledges that the impacts of global climate change present the greatest threat to human rights. On this day we celebrate the…
COSW Ensures Social Work Voice and Concerns are Heard During Commonwealth Summit
Information Type: NewsTopic: IFSW
…of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London. With 52 member countries, nearly a quarter of UN members, the Commonwealth has an important role in shaping policies on international issues like climate…
United States withdraws from UNHRC: IFSW HRC Statement
Information Type: StatementTopic: Human Rights
…with American interests on trade, defence, climate change, and now, human rights. It also leaves the Council without the United States playing a potentially key role in promoting human rights…
Power, Politics and Social Work: The Need to Reinvent Social Work Worldwide – Contributions from Latin American Thought
Information Type: NewsTopic: Social Work, Conference…our planet face the profound alterations suffered by climate change, loss of biological diversity and fertile soils, deforestation and water pollution, among others. Although these changes threaten the entire planet,…
IFSW Europe Statements
Information Type: StatementTopic: IFSW…Human Rights (released from the Delegates Meeting April 2011) IFSW Europe e.V. Statement on the financial crisis (released from the Delegates Meeting April 2011) IFSW Europe e.V. Statement on Climate…
IFSW Europe Regional Conference, Iceland
Information Type: NewsTopic: IFSW, Conference…aid and social work. Here is a short video clip on her keynote speech. Professor Lena Dominelli gave a Keynote speech on precariousness, marginalization and climate changes. Here is a…
Statement on World Human Rights Day by IFSW Human Rights Commission
Information Type: StatementTopic: Human Rights
…serious human rights violations. Poverty is exacerbated by the impact of climate change and the destruction caused by flooding, hurricanes, out of control forest fires and air quality which seriously…
Trump’s Interference with Human and Social Rights
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights…of refugees, regardless of their race, nationality or religion. We are also concerned that the sections covering the areas of LGBTQ rights, climate change and the translation options into Spanish…
Australian government must increase refugee intake
Information Type: NewsTopic: Human Rights…migration and the influx of refugees, especially since the 1940s. This diversity has enriched our country and serves as an example to the world.” “In this current political climate of…
Message from IFSW President Gary Bailey on occasion of World AIDS Day
Information Type: NewsTopic: Social Work…2010. In a difficult economic climate the future of AIDS resourcing depends on smart investments. To rapidly reduce new HIV infections and to save lives, the 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS…
Statement of IFSW-LAC for the humanitarian crisis on the border of Mexico with the United States
Information Type: StatementTopic: Human Rights
…problem lies in the legal apparatus that daily produces conditions that violate and control the migrant. We denounce the current political and anti-migrant climate that violates the lives of thousands…
Extreme weather can be the 'most important cause of poverty'
Information Type: Website/Useful Link, NewsTopic: Environment…points to the need for social workers to engage with others to address the threats of climate change and weather related catastrophes, building on our research and practice wisdom which…
UN Millennium Development Goal review summit opens in New York - 23 September 2013
Information Type: News, Website/Useful LinkTopic: UN…debt burden and an improved climate for trade are levelling the playing field for developing countries
Accelerated progress and bolder action are…
United Nations calls for a more sustainable, just and prosperous world for all
Information Type: NewsTopic: Social Protection…make strides on some of the world’s most pressing issues including food insecurity, climate change, access to education and eradicating poverty. IFSW Secretary General Rory Truell welcomed the Secretary General’s…
What sort of world do we want to create? United Nations launches global consultation website
Information Type: Website/Useful Link, NewsTopic: World Social Work Day, UN…women.
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Registration open for the conference "Global Health and Well-Being"
Information Type: NewsTopic: Conference…for three days to exchange ideas, to share the latest research based knowledge,and to showcase pioneering global solutions, we will create a new climate for interprofessional collaboration and the advancement…
Effective and ethical working environments for social work: the responsibilities of employers of social workers
Information Type: News, PolicyTopic: Employment…satisfaction and the avoidance of bad practice (including the ill-treatment or abuse of vulnerable service users). This climate or culture can only be created and sustained by the leaders of…