Featured article from Global Newsletter May 2026 Written by Marta Lora-Tamayo Vallvé. Professor of Administrative Law, UNED. Department of Administrative Law. Director of the UNED-Lincoln Institute Chair on Land Policy Urban planning is a key component of social policy and plays a very important role in social well- being. How is urban governance changing? Urban governance is currently undergoing a double transformation. On the one hand, traditional regulatory and zoning-based planning systems are increasingly complemented—and in some respects displaced—by strategic, non-binding and...

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

Featured article from Global Newsletter January 2026 Written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther. Senior fellow Wharton/Harvard. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Artificial intelligence is quietly becoming part of how societies decide who gets help, when, and under what conditions. From benefits eligibility to housing support, from disability assessments to unemployment services, algorithms are increasingly embedded in systems that touch the most vulnerable moments of people’s lives. This is not a future scenario. It is already...

Featured article from Global Newsletter August 2026 Written by Sandra Carla Sarde Mirabelli. *This discourse is based on the experience of Social Work, participation in rights councils and monitoring the Human Rights movement, through seminars, congresses, conferences, meetings and lives. The concern for the collective good of our country, our city or neighborhood, based on loving values, makes us all seek to nurture and protect this good. (Bell Hooks, all about love 2021, p.13) Contemporary society still lives with deep inequalities and although human rights are recognized as...