“Love-Passing” is a collaborative project between CTBC Bank and ICSW TAIWAN that combines exercise intervention and cognitive courses.

It is realized that, during the COVID-19 era, children experienced reduced access to essential goods and services, increased poverty, food insecurities and exposure to violence, abuse and exploitation, as well as declines in physical and mental health.

In June 2024, citizens of the European Union will elect the members of the European Parliament for a new five-year term.

Lithuania is among the countries with the highest at risk of poverty (AROP) rates in the EU.

The key issue of ICSW Europe in the last year was the problem of increasing poverty in Europe. The European Anti-Poverty Network EAPN has issued the European Poverty Watch Report 2022

Digital Social Work, or e-social work, in a technological society in which social services are undergoing a process of accelerated digitization, emerges as an increasingly necessary specialization.

From Europe Newsletter - 3/2023 The collective complaints procedure is a human rights protection system for social and economic rights which complements the judicial protection provided under the European Convention on Human Rights for civil and political rights. The collective complaints procedure is a unique form of collective legal action in the human rights protection system, reflecting a systemic approach in addressing social rights problems. This procedure encourages and provides guidance to states to resolve structural problems and shortcomings that prevent general and effective...

by Patricia Martin-O’Meally, Regional President of ICSW North America and the Caribbean The 39th Annual Social Work Day at the UN Program:On March 31st, 2023, the ICSW-US members, Dr. Cudore Snell, Board Member and ICSW Management Committee Member, Ms. Tany Brown, Board Member and Chair of the Membership Committee and Patricia Martin- O’Meally, Board Member and Chair of ICSW-US and President of the North American and Caribbean Region, held a dinner meeting in New York with our ICSW Colleague and friend Sergei Zelenev, ICSW Management Committee Member and Consultant to the 39th Social Work...

The 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe (CoE) held on 15–16 May 2023 in Reykjavík has been the first event of that level in last 18 years.