New book on Human Rights and Social Justice |
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A new book by Social Work Professor Joseph Wronka (Springfield College, Massachusetts, USA) "Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions" views human rights as the bedrock of social justice. It provides a blueprint how human rights and social justice concerns can serve as a conceptual framework for policy and practice interventions among the helping and health professions.
Key Features:
Provides both historical and philosophical perspectives on human rights principles, with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the centerpiece.
Summarizes for the educated layperson core principles of other major human rights documents, such as international conventions on: Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR); the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); the Eradication of Racial Discrimination (CERD); the Rights of the Child (CRC); Torture (CAT); the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Medical Ethics; and the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness.
Viewing social justice as struggle, advocates a multi-pronged approach dealing with whole, at-risk, and clinical populations to promote physical and mental well-being and eradicate social and individual pathology.
Examines social actions like human rights education, resolutions, and bills; the arts and the media; humanistic administration; grant writing; social entrepreneurship; clinical interventions; and quantitative and qualitative research that fcan promote human dignity, public health, human development, and the creation of a human rights culture, which is a "lived awareness" of human rights principles in mind, heart, and body.
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See also Elisabeth Reichert's book: Challenges in Human Rights A Social Work Perspective
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