Challenges in human rights
Subtitle: a social work perspective
By: edited by Elisabeth Reichert.
Contributors: Reichert, Elisabeth.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231137201; 9780231137218; 9780231510349
Subjects: Social service; Human rights; Cultural relativism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elisabeth Reichert; title: Social work and human rights / Elisabeth Reichert; title: Human rights in social work practice : an invisible part of the social work curriculum? / Lena Dominelli; title: Global distributive justice as a human right : implication for the creation of a human rights culture / Joseph Wronka; title: Cultural relativism and community activism / Jim Ife; title: Development, social development and human rights / James Midgley; title: Using economic human rights in the movement to end poverty: the Kensington welfare; title: Rights union and the poor people's economic human rights campaign / Mary Bricker-Jenkins, Carrie Young, and Cheri Honkala; title: Social rights : the neglected category of human rights / Silvia Staub-Bernasconi; title: Human rights and women : a work in progress / Janice Wood Wetzel; title: Human rights violations against female offenders and inmates / Katherine van Wormer; title: Children's rights as a template for social work practice / Rosemary J. Link; title: Globalization, democratization and human rights : human-made disasters and a call for universal social justice / Brij Mohan; title: Law and social work : not-so-odd bedfellows in promoting human rights / Robert J McCormick.