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Social Work

Official Resources & Statistics

United Nations

United Nations System of Organisation - an structural overview of the United Nation Organisation and the related organizations..

United Nations: Global Issues - covering topics on Ageing, AIDS, Atomic Energy, Big Data for Sustainable Development Children, Climate Change, Decolonization, Democracy, Ending Poverty, Food, Gender Equality, Health, Human Rights, Migration, Peace and Security, Population, Refugees, Water, Youth. etc.

United nations: Databases - A federated search into UN databases. All contents are open for access and downloadable.

Hong Kong official resources 

Social Work Organisations in Hong Kong

Open Resources - online

THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER®, the social work careers magazine, has been published since 1994.  Each issue provides practical articles on social work students, social work ethics, field placement, practice issues, practice specialties, technology in social work, book reviews, and more. 

MentalHelp .Net is an online resource of mental health and wellness education, intend to educate, catalog and provide mental health information that compliments, but does not replace, the medical advice of personal medical professionals.

Child Research Net - a trilingual (English/Chinese/Japanese) research site for the future of kids

Social Care Online - a database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work, provided by Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in the UK; it covers regions beyond the UK.

Educational Institutions

Educational institutions

Note: Monitor the upcoming Social Work conferences and events worldwide via the CONAL Conference Alert.