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Human Rights for Social Work
Section 3: Rights-Based Approaches
From: Critical Social Work Praxis
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Human rights are commonly seen as an important part of social work’s value base, yet the understanding of human rights is often simplistic; the author argues tha social worker should better understand this topic. This chapter outlines the main tenets of human rights as well as critiques of the conventional ideas of human rights.
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Jim Ife
Jim Ife is a now-retired professor of social work at Western Sydney University, Australia.