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Sociology

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 - An index of  UN databases .All contents are open for access and downloabable.

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. 

Information for Practice- monthly digest on news & from around the world for social service professionals

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

Child Welfare Information Gateway - a service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice

Educational Institutions

Educational institutions

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