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Title Challenges in human rights : a social work perspective / edited by Elisabeth Reichert.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323 C352 2007    ---  Available
Description xiv, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Social work perspectives on human rights / Elisabeth Reichert -- Human rights in the twenty-first century : creating a new paradigm for social work / Elisabeth Reichert -- Human rights in social work practice : an invisible part of the social work curriculum? / Lena Dominelli -- Global distributive justice as a human right : implications for the creation of a human rights culture / Joseph Wronka -- Cultural relativism and community activism / Jim Ife -- Development, social development, and human rights / James Midgley -- Using economic human rights in the movement to end poverty : the Kensington Welfare Rights union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights campaign / Mary Bricker-Jenkins, Carrie Young, Cheri Honkala -- Economic and social rights : the neglected human rights / Silvia Staub-Bernasconi -- Human rights and women : a work in progress / Janice Wood Wetzel -- Human rights violations against female offenders and inmates / Katherine van Wormer -- Children's rights as a template for social work practice / Rosemary J. Link -- Globalization, democratization, and human rights : human-made disasters and a call for universal social justice / Brij Mohan -- Law and social work : not-so-odd bedfellows in promoting human rights / Robert J. McCormick.
Subject Social service.
Human rights.
Cultural relativism.
Added Author Reichert, Elisabeth.
ISBN 0231137214 (pbk.)
9780231137218 (pbk.)
0231137206 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231137201 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 11143734

 
    
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