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Report on the socio-environmental disaster in RS/Brazil in 2024

  • Subtitle: Boletin Informativo Cooperacion Regional - 2024/11
  • Excerpt: The largest socio-environmental disaster in the State in its entire history occurred in May of 2024, due to the occurrence of heavy rains causing river flooding, floods, landslides and the isolation of areas, and the effects are still being felt.
The largest socio-environmental disaster in the State in its entire history occurred in May of 2024, due to the occurrence of heavy rains causing river flooding, floods, landslides and the isolation of areas, and the effects are still being felt.

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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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