IASSW supports the “Boot Out Austerity” march in the United Kingdom Last week, a group of UK based social work practitioners, educators and students organised a 100-mile walk, from Birmingham to Liverpool, in order to protest against austerity and its catastrophic impact on Social Services. These colleagues, mostly organised around the British Association of Social...
IASSW demands urgent action to protect LGBT victims of state violence in Chechnya In recent weeks, several reports from international media and human rights organisations have documented the existence of Chechnyan concentration camps for people accused of being gay. According to these reports hundreds of people have been arbitrarily detained, tortured and humiliated because of...