FAO (Food and Acricultural Organization of the United Nations) is urging governments and the international community to implement immediate measures in support of...
Archives News 2007
Archives News 2007
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New York, December 18
United Nations officials today called on all countries to protect the human rights of the world’s 200 million migrants, regardless of their...
19.12.07
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to appoint for a period of three years a Special Representative on violence against children, at the highest...
18.12.07
A new book by Social Work Professor Joseph Wronka (Springfield College, Massachusetts, USA) "Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the...
18.12.07
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international...
14.12.07
The EU and Africa have failed to reach agreement on a new trading system after a two-day summit in Lisbon was divided on Zimbabwe and Darfur at its close on Sunday,...
14.12.07
In a new Lancet report, editor-in-chief Richard Horton has highlighted that whilst chronic diseases are yet to be included formally in the existing eight Millennium...
14.12.07
The web site for the upcoming IFSW World Conference now is available at http://www.socialwork2008.com
The conference called “The Challenge of Ensuring Rights in a...
13.12.07
New York, December 12
Children are among those who are most devastated by climate change, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today.
“They pay...
12.12.07
As efforts over recent years to improve the lives of children show both considerable progress and the need for further action, the General Assembly today kicked off...
12.12.07
Washington, DC, December 10
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is proud to celebrate Jane Addams Day today, December 10, 2007. This anniversary...
12.12.07
World makes progress on economic, political and education gaps; loses ground on health gaps.
Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday 8 November
Four Nordic countries, ...
11.12.07
China's first social work commission was officially established yesterday. The Beijing Social Work Committee has pledged to resolve a series of social problems, the...
11.12.07
One person in 10 has suffered from some form of bullying, harassment or violence at work. The most vulnerable are women and those who work on temporary contracts...
11.12.07
The European Parliament gave its assent to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union with 534 votes in favour 85 against and 21 abstentions. On...
11.12.07
New York, 10 December 2007 - A new report issued today by UNICEF reveals a wealth of detailed information on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals...
10.12.07
The Human Rights Day December 10, 2007 marks the start of a year-long commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. In...
03.12.07
Announcement
Eileen McGowan Kelly Tribute Fund
Scholarship to IFSW World Conference
IFSW invites applications for this prestigious award from social work students...
01.12.07
This is a time for reflection about the lives lost and the work yet to be done. "Leadership" is the theme this year in the five-year UNAIDS campaign to "Stop AIDS....
27.11.07
The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is developing a guide for child rights advocates on how to use human rights complaints mechanisms to challenge breaches...
27.11.07
Climate change could bring globalisation to an end by 2040, according to a new report from leading national security experts, with nations turning inwards to save...
27.11.07
The Philippines government has passed a new law recognising the important role of government social workers and giving them more benefits. This is known as the...
27.11.07
A study for the English Local Government Association suggests that there are up to 50,000 attacks on social workers and social care staff in England every year. ...
27.11.07
This report is the first of a new series highlighting the problems which street children face in their everyday lives. The report, begun in 2005 by the Consortium...
27.11.07
The new UN Human Rights Council has selected the first countries to be examined under the new Universal Periodic Review [UPR] mechanism. The countries listed below...
27.11.07
On 20 November 2007 Uruguay became the first Latin American country to ban all physical and humiliating punishment of children. The ban was approved in a bill ...
25.11.07
The African Child Policy Forum has released a report and several related papers about the successes and challenges of bringing national laws into full compliance...
25.11.07
The African Child Policy Forum has released a report and several related papers about the successes and challenges of bringing national laws into full compliance...
22.11.07
The UN has revised downwards its global estimate of the numbers infected with HIV/AIDS, as a result of better information and understanding of the disease. Last ...
20.11.07
Financial Security for Women Seniors in Canada
A document entitled “Financial Security for Women Seniors in Canada” (2007) has just been released by the Canadian...
20.11.07
The Rwandan government and the UN in Rwanda will today (20/11/07) sign the "One UN - Delivering as One Reform" programme, through which sixteen UN agencies ...
19.11.07
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There are concerns in many countries over the potential and actual alienation of Muslim youth and the...
19.11.07
Bangladesh has once again been hit by a devastating natural disaster. The cyclone Sidr, the most destructive storm that has hit the country in a decade, is so far...
15.11.07
The economic outlook for Africa is improving after a decade of growth of 5.4% for the continent that matches global rates, the World Bank has said. South Africa and...
14.11.07
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International Movement ATD Quart Monde, a non-govermental organisation focusing on poverty issues and headquartered in France, has in...
14.11.07
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Climate change is widely seen as a threat to our health, our wealth and our planet. Yet, it also presents huge opportunities for the...
13.11.07
Immediately following UNESCO's 34th General Conference, which re-affirmed the importance of creating the conditions for a genuine dialogue between researchers,...
08.11.07
The Leader of the British Conservative Party and Leader of the official Parliamentary Opposition, David Cameron, praised social workers during a political attack on...
08.11.07
Civil Paths to Peace contains the analyses and findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, established in response to the 2005 request of...
08.11.07
The European Parliament has endorsed an international agreement on improving access to medicines for developing countries, following tough negotiations with the...
08.11.07
Rama Yade, France's deputy foreign minister in charge of human rights, has, ‘encouraged U.N. member states to "break the vicious circle of violence and ...
08.11.07
This is the first draft of a report of this significant WHO project linking health and social development. There are many areas of importance for social work. ...
06.11.07
Emeritus Professor Jim Ife, Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University, Perth, Australia presented the Inuagural Hokenstad International Social Work...
05.11.07
1 November 2007 – The United Nations has teamed up with technology leaders Google and Cisco to launch a new online site to track global progress toward achieving ...
04.11.07
The first internationally agreed upon classification code for assessing the health of children and youth in the context of their stages of development and the...
02.11.07
UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre has highlighted the urgent need to support families and communities to care for children orphaned by HIV and AIDS.
The report...
26.10.07
Nairobi/New York, 25 October: The United Nations Environment Programme says that major threats to the planet such as climate change, the rate of extinction of...
25.10.07
Expanding access to safe abortion around the world is on the agenda at a groundbreaking Global Safe Abortion Conference just held in London. Nearly 800 public ...
19.10.07
IFSW - the international body for social work, representing half a million professional social workers around the globe — is shocked by the events that have been ...
19.10.07
For social work, poverty alleviation is a front line issue. Since professional social work was established some hundred years ago, working with and on behalf of the...
19.10.07
A second Global Report has been pubished on the Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. It reviews progress towards prohibition of corporal ...
18.10.07
Neoclassical economics has traditionally posited that the process of development entails changes in incomes over time. Larger income levels achieved via positive...
18.10.07
Asia is on the way to halve extreme poverty by 2015, reflecting the impact of the region's dynamic economy on the lives of its nearly four billion people, according...
15.10.07
Employers, employees and governments in the G7 countries need to work together to ensure that employment programs and policies are age neutral and end age bias in...
15.10.07
Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Ransford Smith has said that effective negotiation is key to resolving disputes and reaching international accords, especially...
15.10.07
In most refugee situations the majority of separated and unaccompanied children are reunified with their families. However, a number of children always remain for...
15.10.07
A new youth report, jointly prepared by the Women's Commission, Global Youth Action Network, UNICEF and UNFPA, will accompany the official UN Graca Machel +10 ...
15.10.07
The first ever World Social Security Forum took place last week, organized by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the Russian authorities in...
10.10.07
On October 5 each year, teachers’ organisations world-wide mobilise to ensure that the needs of future generations are taken into consideration.
UNESCO...
05.10.07
Challenges in Human Rights
A Social Work Perspective
Columbia University Press
Elisabeth Reichert is a professor at the Southern Illinois University of Carbondale...
01.10.07
The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says that fewer children under the age of five are dying, thanks to immunisation programmes and anti-malaria measures. Basing ...
01.10.07
OECD Health 2007, released on 18 July 2007, offers the most comprehensive annual source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD co...
01.10.07
On Thursday, 27 September 2007, on the one-but-last day of the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council, a panel discussion was organized by the International...
25.09.07
The 60th Annual Conference for Non-Governmental Organizations based at the United Nations met last week for a 3 day global briefing on climate change and how it...
18.09.07
The Organisation for African Unity adopted a Common Position on the situation of children in Africa as a contribution to the United Nations Special Session on...
18.09.07
The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 8) is being held in Madrid, Spain, from 3 to 14...
18.09.07
La Representante Principal de la Federación Internacional de Trabajadores Sociales (FITS) ante las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra, Ellen Mouravieff-Apostol, participó ...
18.09.07
'The euphoria which emerged in the late 1980s with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the spread of democratic regimes has been replaced in recent years by a ...
18.09.07
Although social workers may be critical of some of The World Bank’s policies in relation to low-income countries, results may be more positive in relation to middle...
18.09.07
Developing countries face serious social unrest as they struggle to cope with soaring food prices, inflation that shows no signs of abating, the United Nations’ top...
18.09.07
September 13 2007 was an historic day for the over 300 million indigenous people living in over seventy countries around the world, as well as for all social ...
18.09.07
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organisation has released its Interim Statement setting out its vision and goals, the problems ...
12.09.07
South Africa's social workers from across the public and private sector are to convene their first joint conference, with the aim of forming a unified professional...
06.09.07
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IFSW’s Main Representative at UN Geneva, Ellen Mouravieff-Apostol, attended a three-day conference in August on birth registration held in...
05.09.07
The World Health Organisation is working with the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and The...
02.09.07
The leaders of Britain and Germany focused on reviving stalled efforts to meet global development goals, beginning with a new health program, during talks Wednesday...
28.08.07
In this update UN ECOSOC celebrates the success of the Annual Ministerial Review Innovation Fair (AMR) as a new function of the Economic and Social Council, and...
28.08.07
Karen Lyons , Kathleen Manion and Mary Carlsen
Social work is fundamentally being altered by the 'Internationalization' of social problems. This book by the ...
28.08.07
The main theme of this issue of the journal 'Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender' issue is the use of rights-based approaches to the health of sex workers.
...
27.08.07
The World Health Organisation has launched the first ever report highlighting the special susceptibility of children and young people to harmful chemical exposures...
27.08.07
Scaling up
World Health Organisation
This short and readable report, the third of its kind, reviews the progress that has been made in the field of violence...
23.08.07
The 2007 World Health report was published on 23 August 2007. David N Jones, President, responded 'IFSW welcomes WHO recognition that social factors play a crucial...
20.08.07
IFSW has supported action to prevent violence to children and young people and welcomed the report of the UN Secretary-General’s 2006 Study on Violence against...
20.08.07
The new UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, used his first speech to the UN as Prime Minister to warn the world that it is a "million miles" from meeting its promises...
20.08.07
This paper tries to raise awareness of the distortions that violent political conflict may introduce into social work practice with members of the rival community,...
20.08.07
In 2002, the United Nations launched an initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo known as the Children's Parliament, which has grown into a well-respected ...
20.08.07
The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) has published a new report on monitoring public services. 'Governments in a number of developing countries are...
13.08.07
The United Nations Public Service Awards is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards the creative achievements and...
13.08.07
IFSW is exploring more effective ways to promote social work and tell the wider public about what social workers do. This recent article from a UK newspaper...
13.08.07
For more than 50 years, protecting human rights and promoting democracy have been core missions of the Council of Europe. But how well are the Organisation's member...
13.08.07
This paper was commissioned by the Health Systems Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health in response to their conclusion that ...
13.08.07
Ms. Hanifa Mezoui introducing the success stories being exhibited by 29 NGOs to the Secretary General.
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23.07.07
According to a new poll in the UK, the public perception of social workers, once regarded as the child-snatchers of the state, is improving.
Comment is free: ...
23.07.07
'We, the representatives of the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the...
23.07.07
The Public Services International Executive Board at its meeting on 9-10 May endorsed the overall direction and concept of the 5-year programme of work on quality...
23.07.07
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, operates under a unique mandate — one that is as important as it is often overlooked. It is a mandate that champions the...
23.07.07
Advance Planning Needed to Adapt to Ageing Populations, UN Report Says
A new UN report, 'Development in an Ageing World' notes that ageing is having a profound...
20.07.07
Some social workers use literature as a tool in therapeutic work with adults and children. Harry Potter offers a lot of social work opportunities as Harry Potter...
19.07.07
This report, for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, gives a synthesis of knowledge on available opportunities for...
19.07.07
Berlin, 18/19/20 June - 2007 - 15th European Social Services Conference: 'Opportunity for All - the challenge for social and health services in diverse Europe'...
19.07.07
edited by F. W. Seibel, H.-U. Otto and G. J. Friesenhahn
Professor Walter Lorenz (Bolzano, Italy) has made a major contribution to social work study and practice...
19.07.07
This report is published by the European Social Network and brings together three strands of thematic work — access to quality services; discrimination and...
16.07.07
The CSDF 2007 brought together over 600 people — actors of global civil society, governments and private sector — to work with the UN to jointly agree on priorities...
16.07.07
Ministers of Social Development from 18 countries met in Paris on 16-17 July 2007 to discuss ways of linking social science research and policy development in order...
16.07.07
Since their adoption by all United Nations Member States in 2000, the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals have become a universal framework...
15.07.07
In November 2006, the Public Sector Steering Group hosted a public sector forum on the future of public services. However, it was not a normal forum with invited...
14.07.07
Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, was recently able to participate in high-level meetings between...
12.07.07
This study documents the results to which the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) financing in Africa has contributed over the last five years ("What has...
25.06.07
IFSW has a good vision and a positive work programme. The challenge for the next year is to turn the vision into action and results. This was the conclusion of the...
17.06.07
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13.06.07
The dates for this week commemorate of the anniversary of Republic Act 4373 otherwise known as the Social Work Law passed on June 19, 1965.
The Philippine...
13.06.07
This film (released in 2007) is set in the courtyard of a mud walled house in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. In a unique and creative mix of global politics and...
13.06.07
World Day Against Child Labour 2007:
New global partnership against child labour in agriculture
12.06.07
At least 3 million professional social workers are needed in the public service, welfare and community sectors to help establish a civic society, experts have said...
10.05.07
UNITED NATIONS PRESS RELEASE
Indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and natural resources focus of UN forum opening 14 May in New York. Other key issues...
07.05.07
A new opinion poll in the UK has found large support for social workers. Over 90% said that the contribution of social workers in the community is very or fairly...
01.05.07
The next European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress will be held in Seville, Spain from 21 to 24 May 2007.
The ETUC Congress is convened every four years...
30.04.07
Press Release
$Groundbreaking 10-year action plan for people with disabilities: all 46 Council of Europe member states to participate
Strasbourg, 24.04.2007 – For...
27.03.07
IFSW wrote on the first ever World Social Work Day to the Nobel Prize jury in Oslo, Norway, to support the nomination of Irena Sendler. As the Prize for 2007 was...
16.03.07
Reducing the risk of disasters or its impact on vulnerable populations worldwide requires the application of appropriate comprehensive interventions that improve...
16.03.07
International Federation of Social Workers
Social Work: Making a World of Difference
Social Workers around the world celebrate the first World Social Work Day...
14.03.07
The General Social Care Council in England is leading a project which will describe the roles and tasks of social work in order to define a profession with service...
15.01.07
The roots of the social work profession in Singapore can be traced to its humble beginnings 57 years ago. For the first time, the Singapore Association of Social...
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