ABSTRACT

Human Rights and Social Justice: Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations is a comprehensive text that focuses on central issues of human rights and justice and links them directly with social work competencies and practice. Drawing attention to oppression and multiple forms of disadvantage and discrimination based on a person’s identity and social location, this volume develops an integrated framework to advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice with vulnerable populations and communities across all three levels of practice.  

Each chapter, written by leading scholars in their respective fields, is designed to enhance students’ awareness, knowledge, and understanding of key theories and issues related to diversity, human rights, and equity. Broken into sections providing theory, practice, and case study illustrations, the chapters will first explain and argue that each person, regardless of their position in society, has basic human rights. Students will then see how these knowledges translate into practice through clear and engaging cases that reinforce skills and behaviors that social workers may use to advocate for human rights and ensure that they are distributed equitably and without prejudice.   

Providing a broad overview of social justice and rights-based challenges and connecting theory to the profession’s core competencies, this book is an excellent companion for social work students and faculty engaged in foundation and advanced courses in practice with individuals, groups, and communities and diversity and oppression.   

part 1|1 pages

Setting the Foundation

part 2|1 pages

Key Issues

chapter 3|18 pages

Oppression and Diversity

Race and Social Justice

chapter 4|16 pages

Oppression and Diversity

Ethnicity, Culture, Religion

chapter 7|25 pages

Social Work and Health Equity

An Examination of the Five Dimensions of Access

part 3|2 pages

Vulnerable Populations

chapter 10|27 pages

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Equally Free to Be LGBTQIA+: This Is Who I Am, and We Are!

chapter 11|23 pages

Disability, Social Justice and Human Rights

The Experience of the United Kingdom

chapter 12|23 pages

The Human Rights of “Prisoners”

It Is about People and Community, Not Prisons

chapter 15|6 pages

Conclusions