General Speeches and Statements

• Globalization and Development Cooperation between South and North
  ICSW has started its first bilateral programme between a North member and a South Member. The Finnish Committee of ICSW is entering into an agreement with the Tanzania Council of Social Development (TACOSODE). Denys Correll Executive Director spoke on The Role and Opportunities of ICSW in Social Development Cooperation at a seminar on 20th March 2006. The seminar in Helsinki was organised by The Finnish Committee of ICSW and the Association of Social Policy. The subject of the seminar was Globalization and Development Cooperation between South and North.
  
  
• Statement on the Priority Theme of the Commission for Social Development Improving Public Sector Effectiveness 42nd Session 4-13th February 2004
  
• Speech by Mr Dirk Jarré, Past President of ICSW, at the Dialogue of the Secretary General with NGO leaders at the Council of Europe - 21 January 2002

• ICSW's comments on the working paper prepared by the facilitator to the preparatory committee for financing for development, at its third substantive session: Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
  May 2001

• Sustainable Social Progress
  Paper delivered by ICSW's President at the International Symposium, Partnerships for Social Development in a Globalising World, Geneva, June 27, 2000
  
  
• Statement to the South African Development Community Council of Ministers Meeting on Social Development
  Durban, 7- 8 December 1999
  
  
• President's address
  Social Welfare, Social Development and Social Justice:
  ICSW's Progress and Plans at the Global Level
  to ICSW European Regional Conference, Lille, France, 23 September 1999
  
  
• President's address
  Address to the Biennial Global Conference of the
  International Council on Social Welfare
  to ICSW biennial conference, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1998
  
  
• President's Statement
  Geneva must deliver what Copenhagen promised
  Statement made in the ICSW Social Development Review, March 2000
  
  
• President's Statement
  The International Anti-Poverty Alliance
  Statement made in the ICSW Social Development Review, December 1999
  
  
• President's Statement
  International Standards for Social Development
  Statement made in the ICSW Social Development Review, September 1999
  
  
• President's Statement
  Statement made in the ICSW Social Development Review, June 1999
  
  
• President's Statement
  Statement made in the ICSW Social Development Review, March 1999
  

Copenhagen Summmit

• Statement to the Special Session of the UN General Assembly
  by Qazi Faruque Ahmed on behalf of the International Council on Social Welfare
  
  
• President's Statement
  June 2000. The campaign for an international anti-poverty pact
  
  
• Eight NGO Priorities (Geneva 2000)
  
  
• ICSW comments and amendments to the further actions and initiatives to implement the commitments made at the Summit
  16 May, 2000
  
  
• President's address
  Economic and Social Development: Implementation of the Copenhagen Summit to Seoul, South Korea, International Conference of NGOs, 12 October, 1999
  
  
• ICSW's Statement to the Intersessional Meeting
  of the Preparatory Committee on Implementation of the World Summit for Social Development, 30 August 1999
  
  
• Strengthening the Structures and Processes of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD)
  February 1998
  
  
• "Priorities for the Future Work Programme of the Commission for Social Development" (CSocD)
  February 1998
  
  
• WSSD statement
  March 1995, Copenhagen

Many of ICSW's formal statements to the UN and
other Intergovernmental bodies are to be found in the
section "Publications and Policy Papers"