Morocco’s Driss Guerraoui was unanimously elected for a fourth term as member of the board of the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW), President of the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region.
Guerraoui was elected during the ICSW’s General Assembly, held online on November 8.
This governing body of ICSW also elected to its presidency a new President, Sang-Mok Suh, from South Korea, and 8 regional presidents: The Reverant Taylor Nyanhette from Zimbabwe for the East and South Africa Region, Amacodou Diouf from Senegal for the Central and West Africa Region, Suresh Pathare from India for the South Asia Region, Chinchai Cheecharoen, Thailand for the South East Asia and Pacific Region, Chua Hoi Wai of Hong Kong for the Asia Region of North East, Ronald Wiman of Finland for the Europe Region, Michele Matthews, from the USA for the North America and Caribbean Region, and Cristina Riscalla Madi, from Brazil for the Latin America Region.
A global non-governmental organization founded in 1928 and headquartered in Utrecht (The Netherlands), the International Council on Social Action is one of the first international NGOs to obtain the special consultative status on the United Nations and it’s specialized agencies, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), ILO, UNESCO, WHO, FAO, or UNICEF.
ICSW includes national and international organizations whose goal is to advance social well-being, social justice and social development worldwide. Its core mission is to promote forms of social and economic development aimed at reducing poverty, malaise and vulnerability in the world.
It fights for the recognition and protection of basic human rights in food, education, health, housing and social protection. For ICSW these rights are an essential pillar for making individual and collective freedoms, justice and peace effective. As a result, it seeks to advance equal opportunities, freedom of expression and widespread access of people around the world to basic social services and universal social protection.
Morocco has joined the ICSW in June 2010 following its unanimous election by the General Assembly held in Hong Kong.
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