January 2022

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Vol 1 Issue 01

WHAT'S IN THISMONTH'S ISSUE:
People's Global Summit
World Social work day
I pledge campaign
Violence against women webinar
IASSW Board Meeting
IASSW Capacity Building
Workshop
Social Dialogue is out
Membership Update

UN Days of the Month

World Day of Social
Justice - 20 Feb

People's Global Summit
The People’s Global Summit shall be held from 29th June to 2nd July 2022 – Online. The summit is for everyone. It
focuses on the theme – “Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind”. It brings togetherindividuals and communities, people of lived experiences, along with global organisations to co-build a combined
global conversation on the creation of globally shared values for a new eco-social world that leaves no one behind.
The people’s global summit provides spaces for individuals as well as for group representatives to advance theirideas and provide a platform for engagement across different cultures, diverse lived experiences, professionalgroups, and perspectives. All contributions will shape the Global Values Declaration for a new eco-social world thatwill be delivered to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum in July 2022 and will create a catalyst for further
global action.

Social Dialogue - Latest Edition
International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) havelaunched the next Social dialogue volume 25th in January 2022. First
volume of the new year 2022 on the theme “The Pandemic that
Shook Social Work Education". It is a collaborative effort fromacademics, students, practice teachers and service users from acrossthe globe exploring social work’s educational response to the current
COVID-19 pandemic, focusing specifically on how they have
responded to the many issues and challenges that emerged.
We have updated Social Dialogue website with new look and easy toread online. Please visit for current and past volumes:
https://socialdialogue.online/World Social Work day
The next World Social Work Day takes place on the 15th March
2022. The theme: ´Co-building a New Eco-Social World:
Leaving No One Behind´ coincides with the theme of thepeople´s summit that will take place on the 29th June to the2nd July. The theme presents a vision and action plan to create
new global values, policies and practices that develop trust,security and confidence for all people and the sustainability ofthe planet. World Social Work Day 2022 will be a highlight
opportunity for the social work profession to engage all social
work networks and the community they work within to makecontributions to the values and principles which enable all
people to have their dignity respected through shared futures.

I Pledge Campaign
A virtual campaign was initiated and hosted via IASSW
social media handles on Violence against women. The 16
days campaign focused on one kind of violence againstwomen. Each post was complimented by images/gif
images designed by UN Women. Some sample posts
were as follows: I Pledge to Believe the Survivors Hashtags - #OrangeTheWorld

Violence Against Women - Webinar
Marking the close of the 16 days virtual campaign andobserving the International Human Rights Day a webinar
was organized on 10th December 2021. The webinar washosted by IASSW on Zoom and livestreamed via IASSW
Facebook page. The topic of the webinar was “I pledge totake a stand! – Ending violence against women andpromoting women’s human rights”. The webinar wasmoderated by Prof. Darja Zavirsek, University of Ljublijana.
Other speakers were Prof. Shulamit Ramon, University ofHertforshire, Prof. Shahana Rasool, University ofJohannesburg.

IASSW Board Meeting
IASSW hosted its Board Meeting on 10-12 January, 2022
virtually. The meeting saw participation of its board
members across the globe wherein Day 1 was dedicated tothe building workshop on Issue-Based Advocacy andIASSW: Ethical Issues, Themes and Challenges. Secondand third day comprised of presentation of reports byIASSW President, Secretary followed by other board andcommittee heads Followed by presentation of reports by
the committee heads and regional presidents. The
meeting concluded with the next meeting date and venue
being fixed.

IASSW – Capacity Building Workshop
International Association of Schools of Social Work(IASSW) and Capacity Building Chair Darla Spence
Coffey & Rashmi Pandey has organized a capacity
building workshop on Issue-Based Advocacy andIASSW: Ethical Issues, Themes and Challenges for
IASSW Board of Directors on January 10th, 2022.
Prof. Sarah Banks from Durham University and Prof.
Lynne Healy -IASSW Main Representative at UN NY
were key presenters. The workshop was conceptualizedand facilitated by Prof. Sarah Banks, Prof. Lynne Healy,
Prof. Vishanthie Sewpaul, Prof. Mark Henrickson andProf. Janet Walker, who is also chair of Human Rights
and Social Justice committee of IASSW.

Mail regarding membership renewal has been sent to all individual andinstitutional members of IASSW. Requesting you all to renew yourmembership with us for sustained association.
https://www.iassw-aiets.org/membership/

This year IASSW is initiating its monthly newsletter. We are happy torelease its first edition. This newsletter shall entail the news and updates
from the organization and its members. It will also include details ofupcoming programs.
We invite all members and readers to share the recent news and updates ofyour organization latest by 10th of every month for it to be published inthis monthly newsletter. Kindly share your reports with relevant
photographs to Ms. Jenny Joy, Communication Officer
jenny@iassw-aiets.org.