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Women and the Arab Spring: Spotlight on Egypt, Tunisia and Libya

Today, NASW staff will join a number of women’s rights organizations, Senator Boxer (D-CA), Senator Casey (D-PA) and other women's right's experts at a hearing on November 2nd at 2:30pm.  The hearing, "Women and the Arab Spring:  Spotlight on Egypt, Tunisia and Libya"...

Social Work Visit to Tanzania

– submitted by Luisa Lopez, MSW NASW Foundation Consultant http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/intl http://socialworkers.org/nasw/swan/default.asp It was a little over a year ago, January 2010, when NASW first worked with American International Health Alliance...

News from the Hill – September 2011

NASW Sends Letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction NASW recently sent a letter to the recently appointed 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction who will make recommendations on ways to increase revenues while reducing the...

Twinning with Tanzania

Jeane Anastas, PhD, LMSW Social work is a re-emerging profession in Tanzania, which is in East Africa, and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is lending a hand. Through the NASW Foundation’s Social Workers Across Nations (SWAN) initiative, NASW partners...

Anti-Prostitution Pledge Ruling

The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, on July 6, 2011, upheld a ruling that the federal government cannot force HIV/AIDS-prevention grant recipients to certify their agreement with the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria...