Challenges in human rights : a social work perspective
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press ,
c2007
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Human rights in the twenty-first century : creating a new paradigm for social work
- 2. Human rights in social work practice : an invisible part of the social work curriculum?
- 3. Global distributive justice as a human right : implications for the creation of a human rights culture
- 4. Cultural relativism and community activism
- 5. Development, social development, and human rights
- 6. Using economic human rights in the movement to end poverty : the Kensington Welfare Rights union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights campaign
- 7. Economic and social rights : the neglected human rights
- 8. Human rights and women : a work in progress
- 9. Human rights violations against female offenders and inmates
- 10. Children's rights as a template for social work practice
- 11. Globalization, democratization, and human rights : human-made disasters and a call for universal social justice
- 12. Law and social work : not-so-odd bedfellows in promoting human rights