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IFFD in United Nations
In mid-May, Ignacio SocÃas, IFFD Director of International Relations, traveled to New York, where he attended various events in the United Nations headquarters. On May 14, he represented civil society at a World Meeting of Experts on the situation of the family in the...
Promoting Family Enrichment and Mexico Congress in Nigeria
In mid-June, Ignacio SocÃas, IFFD Director of International Relations, visited Nigeria at the invitation of the Whitesands and Lagoon Schools to promote Family Enrichment.He also met with the Board of NADAF, the Nigerian Family Enrichment Center, to promote the...
First Steps in Chicago
At the beginning of June, a First Steps course involving more than eighty people concluded in Chicago. The organizers celebrated with an outdoor picnic for participants and their families.
Family Summer
Family Summer began on July 4 in Huesca, Spain. More than fifteen families from Croatia, Belarus, Russia, and Lithuania are participating. During the program, Spanish moderators will teach a Matrimonial Love course and a moderators' training course. This activity will...
UN Resolution
On July 1, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution on the "contribution of the family to the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living for its members, particularly through its role in poverty eradication and achieving...
Closing event at UCOFA, Seville
On July 2, Ignacio SocÃas, IFFD director of international relations, gave a lecture as part of the year's closing event at UCOFA, the Family Enrichment Center of Seville. The event was held at Guadaira College. SocÃas's speech dealt with the current situation of the...
19th International Family Congress
16th-18th October 2015, Mexico City. All information here
New course in Amsterdam
Following a training session carried out in November, a Marital Love program started up in Amsterdam on February 6. We hope it will be an enriching course as approximately thirty participants, from different nationalities, will be taking part. Also in the Netherlands,...
Courses in London
On January 30, in the biggest city in Europe, two new courses started up: Marital Love and Pre-teens, which will take place in parallel. The Marital Love program, which couples of different ages are taking part in, has begun by examining the meaning of commitment and...
Training in Kazakhstan
The sub-zero temperatures which are common in winter months in Almaty and Astana haven’t impeded the setting up of moderator training courses in both cities. We hope that in a few months it will be possible to start offering IFFD programs in this country. The training...
FamiliesAndSocieties Annual Meeting. January 2016
The third Annual Meeting of the research project of the European Union’s Seventh Framework ProgrammeFamiliesAndSocieties was held from January 13-15 at the Campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, with the participation of the 28 Consortium partners....
IFFD Paper 50. An appalling humanitarian crisis European Union policies on migration and asylum. February 2016
Hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants have arrived in Europe in recent months to escape horrors at home. Migration to Europe is nothing new, but the arrival of so many men, women and children at the same time has caused an appalling humanitarian crisis that the...
IFFD Briefing New York, February 10
The IFFD Briefing, which took place on February 10 within the framework of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development in New York, included the participation of academics, government representatives, and civil society representatives from...