Problems and trends of social welfare in Switzerland and the world today

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (60) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Walter Rickenbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
International Conference ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

Definitions.— Social welfare is a relatively recent field of activity and knowledge. The notions themselves are therefore constantly evolving. In addition to a certain number of social workers and social workers' associations, the United Nations as well as the International Conference of Social Work have attempted to define them. There is an increasing tendency in various countries to differentiate between social welfare and social work.

Social Work and the United Nations

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin S. Mama
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
International Association ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Consultative Status ◽  
The United Nations

The profession of social work has a long and rich history of participating in and influencing the work of the United Nations and its affiliate agencies, almost since the inception of the institution. This history includes not only the work of social work or social welfare organizations as accredited nongovernmental organizations, but also of individual social workers who were trailblazers in the field of international work. The founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945 played a key role in establishing what has come to be a formal relationship between civil society and the United Nations. Article 71 of the United Nations Charter cemented this relationship by allowing the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to make consultative arrangements with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) (United Nations, 2003). The number of NGOs at the founding conference numbered 1,200; at present there are 3,900 NGOs that have consultative status with ECOSOC (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2014). Three of the leading social work organizations that have consultative status with the United Nations are: International Association of Schools of Social Work (received consultative status in 1947), International Federation of Social Workers—(received consultative status in 1959), and International Council on Social Welfare (received consultative status in 1972).

Industrialization and The Family1

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Richard M. Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores how there are at least three reasons why industrialization and the family is today an important subject for debate by an international conference of social workers. The first is an obvious one: the opportunities that it offers for discussion and analysis on a comparative basis. The second lies in the fact that the world is increasingly an industrial world and dominated in its values and goals by problems of economic growth. The third reason in supporting the choice of this particular subject for discussion is that social work is primarily an activity carried on in industrial, urban societies. The problems of human needs and relationships with which social work has traditionally been associated have had their origin in those societies experiencing the impact of industrialization.

Community Development and Social Welfare in Urban Areas

1960 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
African Development ◽  
Full Report ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

Editorial Note: A European Seminar on this subject was held in Bristol, England in Septem ber, 1959 as part of the United Nations European Social Welfare Programme. The following article, containing a summary of the main points, is being printed here because of the wide spread interest in "urban cpmmunity development" which has recently sprung up around the world. The full report of the Seminar is available from the United Nations office in Geneva. It was prepared by Mr. P. H. K. Kuenstler of the African Development Trust in London, who directed the Seminar.

scholarly journals Patients Rights

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Author(s):  
CP Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Patients Rights ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Day By Day

Gone are the days when a treating doctor was treated as next to god! The education and literacy is rising day by day and so is the awareness among people of every walk of life. Human rights propagated by the United Nations is already in existence. Our children, students and people of the world today are conscious of their rights. Thus patients also are aware of their rights. This is a healthy modern trend for the medical world today.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jucms.v1i3.8771   Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences Vol.1(3) 2013: 71-72

Cassidy, Harry Morris

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie Blair
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
School Of Social Work ◽  
The University

Harry Morris Cassidy (1900–1951) was a Canadian academic, social reformer, civil servant, and, briefly, a politician. A pioneer in the field of social work, he was also the founding dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1940s. He then worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He subsequently became dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

scholarly journals Normative and Positive Social Work in the Context of the Placement Decision: A Defence of Social Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Charles Sutcliffe ◽  
Kish Bhatti-Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
The World ◽  
Placement Decision ◽  
Press Criticism

Two fundamental questions for social work are considered: one normative and one positive. First, is it possible for social work practice to be based on an objective that maximises social welfare; and second, does social work practice actually conform to some objective, which may or may not maximise social welfare? These two questions are addressed in the context of one of the most important decisions made by social workers - the placement decision. It is argued that deriving a societal objective faces formidable theoretical problems, and that even if a well-defined criterion was available, actual social work decisions would still be inconsistent due to a lack of the requisite information and different interpretations of the available data. It is argued that the substantial empirical evidence from around the world on the placement decision provides little evidence of consistent decision making. This may be because the statistical analyses have lacked the data and techniques necessary to detect the underlying patterns, or because placement decisions are largely random. The apparent absence of clear objectives, either specified by society or accepted custom and practice, places social workers in a very difficult position, making them open to press criticism and victimization, even though they acted entirely competently.

CZY ZALEWA NAS FALA PRZEMOCY? POLITYCY I MEDIA VS. DANE STATYSTYCZNE

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Hamer ◽  
Hanna Hamet
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Police Data ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Drugs And Crime

By detailed analyses of Polish and world statistics, the authors search for the answer if in fact,as some politicians and citizens claim, the world and in particular European Union and Polandare overcome by the wave of violence. Data gathered, among others, by Polish Public OpinionResearch Center (CBOS), Eurostat and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOCD), aswell as anthropologists and police, clearly prove the opposite. Scientific comparisons concerningviolence over the centuries show that its scale drastically decreased and the world gets saferwith time. Statistical reports of the United Nations especially clearly indicate European Union(including Poland) as particularly peaceful region against the rest of the world, having the lowestmurder rates. Eurostat data confirm these results, also showing decrease in other crimes overthe years. Polish police data similarly prove existence of this trend and CBOS indicates thatit is reflected in increasing sense of security among Poles. In the second part of the article theauthors explain potential reasons for using such false slogans as “increasing wave of violence” bypoliticians and raising fear in voters as well as psychological mechanisms responsible for theirpotential effectiveness.

A Bifurcated Global Nuclear Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

The very destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes them unusable for ethical and military reasons. The world has placed growing restrictions on the full range of nuclear programs and activities. But with the five NPT nuclear powers failing to eliminate nuclear arsenals, other countries acquiring the bomb, arms control efforts stalled, nuclear risks climbing, and growing awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, the United Nations adopted a new treaty to ban the bomb. Some technical anomalies between the 1968 and 2017 treaties will need to be harmonized and the nuclear-armed states’ rejection of the ban treaty means it will not eliminate any nuclear warheads. However, it will have a significant normative impact in stigmatizing the possession, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons and serve as a tool for civil society to mobilize domestic and world public opinion against the doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

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