Criminalizing Child Welfare: Retired Texas Ranger Takes Over Child Protection Agency
"Child welfare is a continuum of services that ensure children are safe and that families have the support they need...
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Journey through the Grief of Homelessness
Subprime loans, adjustable rate mortgages, unregulated equity lines of credit, mentally ill, physically and verbally abused, veterans, runaway children, drug...
Protest Movement Turned Into A Commitment to the City’s Homeless
In February 2011, thousands of concerned citizens protested with Wisconsin public employees against Governor Scott Walker and the Republican-led legislature...
Answering the Call: 5 Social Initiatives Helping to Fight Poverty in Kentucky
By Gabe Duverge The poverty rate in the United States is 14.8 percent, based on the latest data from the...
Honoring South African Youth Month through Social Work and Entrepreneurship
June is a special month to salute civil and human liberties -- from Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration commemorating the...
For The Empowerment of Women and Girls: Women Deliver 2016 Conference
New York – Women Deliver 2016 Conference is taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 16-19 May, and it will focus...
Genocide Survivors: Contributors not Victims
Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad...
Global Social Work Agenda and Social Development
Recently, I had chance to watch "The Inequality Movie" narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich where it outlines how...
What Racists and Child Rape Apologists Have in Common
I remember interviewing two women back to back for a federal research project. Both women were black. They were mother...
Improving Protection for Victims of Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
Children, women and men should be protected from forced labour and human trafficking which are two serious human rights violations....
Remove Obstacles to the Work of Women’s Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders and civil society organisations working to protect the human rights of women and gender equality perform an...
Europe Can Do More to Protect Refugees
For many years European countries have been warned about the inadequacy of their immigration and asylum systems. Now, with increased...
Without Papers But Not Without Rights: The Basic Social Rights of Irregular Migrants
Refugee camp on the outskirts of Calais, France © Matt Sprake Those who think that irregular migrants have no rights...
A Black Hole in European History Prevents Full Understanding of the Present
© United States Holocaust Memorial Museum A couple of days ago, we commemorated the liquidation 71 years ago of the...
LGBTI Children Have the Right to Safety and Equality
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) children are often victims of bullying and violence in schools, at home and...
America Sent the First Man to the Moon, but Can’t Track Police Killings
I started writing this article at a time when hundreds of people were taking to the streets to protest the...
We Must Honor Kalief Browder and Work to End State Violence
Screenshot from rare video footage from Rikers Island showing Kalief Browder being held on the ground. On Saturday, June 6,...
Police Abuse: A Serious Threat to the Rule of Law
Far too often, police officers in many European countries resort to excessive use of force against protesters, mistreat persons in...
OSU School of Social Work Dean Is Not Silent on the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Over the past year, we have witnessed massive protests around the world spawned by human rights violations, declining labor rights,...
Female Poverty is on the Rise: Protecting Women’s Rights
Women and men entered the economic crisis on an unequal footing. The crisis and resulting austerity measures have hit women...
