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 | For over half a century the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) has represented peak organisations in over seventy countries. Thus tens of thousands of civil society organisations have been represented through ICSW at the UN. As an organisation with UN consultative status, ICSW is involved in global discussions concerning issues of social development, social welfare and social justice.
This involvement is especially with UNESCO, ECOSOC, UN Commission for Social Development and the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). ICSW in its monthly newsletter Global Cooperation draws attention to UNRISD publications and research. To visit UNRISD directly go to www.unrisd.org.
This section highlights ICSW submissions to the UN. | | |
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| On UN Social Work Day held on 28th March Helen Clark of the United Nations Development Programme called on social workers to speak up and get involved with the UN agendas and to challenge inequality and injustice. |
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| ICSW presented in February its statement to the UN Commission for Social Development. The statement focussed on the impact of the global financial crisis on social integration. The statement can be found in all UN languages at www.un.org |
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| | | | 2009 | | | | ICSW has prepared a statement on social integration for the UN Commission for Social Development that meets in February 2009. There are two documents - a complete statement and a shorter one that meets the UN maximum word limit of 2000 words. | | | |
| | A new deal for people in a global crisis - social security for all | | Social Security for All. During the 2009 47th Session of the Commission for Social Development an excellent workshop in social security was held. The speakers from UN, ILO and UNICEF presented well researched arguments for a basic social floor of social security benefits. ICSW supports the adoption by all countries of a global social floor. | | | | | |
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| | | 2008 | | | | The UN has made many commitments to full employment and decent work. In 1995 117 world leaders signed the Copenhagen Declaration. It is time to remind member governments of the UN of their adherence to their own commitments. | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | 2007 | | | | ICSW's statement to the UN on promoting full employment and decent work for all arises from the fact that global unemployment is rising. This is despite the impressive growth in global gross domestic product (GDP). Economic growth is not translating into new jobs. ICSW draws attention to the poor conditions of work for many employed people. | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | 2006 | | | | The ICSW statement is a review of the first UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 1997-2006. The findings show that, despite a decade of poverty eradication, there remains a large gap between the commitments, goals and targets for the Decade and the outcomes of current trends on income and human poverty. | | | | | |
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| 2005 |
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| ICSW's statement focuses on the World Summit for Social Development (WSSD) that concentrated on four core issues - poverty alleviation, unemployment, social exclusion and an enabling environment for social development. |
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