ABSTRACT
This article has been selected, not because of the answers it provides, but because of the questions it poses and the insight it gives into the contested terrain that is global social work, and more specifically, global social work ethics. The aim of the new statement of ethical principles, approved by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) in 2018, was to move away from the ‘Western’ liberal humanist values that had characterised the previous statement, and at the same time, to respond to calls to decolonise social work. How far this has been achieved remains an open question. We invite readers to use this extract as a brief taster, and to make up their own minds about this important debate by reading the article in full.
