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The Future of Civic Freedoms: Lessons from My Time at CIVICUS

  • Subtitle: South East Asia & the Pacific Newsletter - 2024/10
  • Excerpt: When I joined CIVICUS in 2019, I came in with two decades of work on influencing and monitoring public policies through grassroots and global activism.
When I joined CIVICUS in 2019, I came in with two decades of work on influencing and monitoring public policies through grassroots and global activism.

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Social Platform builds its work on a Wellbeing Economy

  • Subtitle: Europe Newsletters - 03/2024
  • Excerpt: A ‘Wellbeing Economy’ is an economy designed to serve people and the planet, not the other way around.
A ‘Wellbeing Economy’ is an economy designed to serve people and the planet, not the other way around.

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Using Sports to Guide At-Risk Youth: An Introduction to Taiwan’s “Love-Passing” Project

  • Subtitle: Global Newsletter - July 2024
  • Excerpt: “Love-Passing” is a collaborative project between CTBC Bank and ICSW TAIWAN that combines exercise intervention and cognitive courses.
“Love-Passing” is a collaborative project between CTBC Bank and ICSW TAIWAN that combines exercise intervention and cognitive courses.

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The Impacts of COVID-19 On School Children - Governments To Create Emergency Preparedness Fund

  • Subtitle: Global Newsletter - April 2024
  • Excerpt: 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.
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.

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Summary of the Seminar “Poverty of Children and Families” of ICSW Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Subtitle: Global Newsletter - February 2024
  • Excerpt: 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
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

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A digital crossroads in social policies? Priorities for social welfare programs and social work

  • Subtitle: Global Newsletter - January 2024
  • Excerpt: 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.
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.

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25th Anniversary of the collective complaints procedure

  • Subtitle: Europe Newsletters - 03/2023
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...

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