Putting human rights at the heart of social work practice

Ballantyne, Neil

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“…[IFSW], 2014), social workers have a role in improving policies, especially indigenous policies. After all, human rights are the concern of the social work profession (Ballantyne, 2019), and policies should be based on human rights to achieve the best interest interests of all communities.…”

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“…As a profession that “promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people” (International Federation of Social Work [IFSW], 2014), social workers have a role in improving policies, especially indigenous policies. After all, human rights are the concern of the social work profession (Ballantyne, 2019), and policies should be based on human rights to achieve the best interest interests of all communities. Therefore, more social workers' involvement in ensuring policy implementation is needed, and having good intentions from social workers is not enough, the wrong move can produce poor outcomes in the future for the indigenous communities and children (Blackstock et al., 2007).…”

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The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

Azzasyofia,

Fouche,

Beddoe

2024

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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According to the Indonesian Child Protection Law, Number 35/2014, the group of children that should receive special protection are minorities and isolated children; this includes Indigenous children who mostly live in remote areas. Under this law, Indigenous children gain special protection, including facilities to share their cultural practices, practice their beliefs, and use their language. This article aimed to describe how Indigenous children have been represented in selected policies in Indonesia. The first step of a policy analysis approach known as “What's the problem represented to be” (WPR), introduced by Carol Bacchi in her book “Analysing policy: What's the problem represented to be?” in 2009, was applied to examine how Indigenous children in Indonesia are represented in six significant policies. Findings from the analysis indicate that the government of Indonesia acknowledges Indigenous rights. However, the policies describe Indigenous children as vulnerable and linked to social welfare problems. Social work core values state that respect for the dignity and worth of all human beings, promotion of welfare or well‐being, and social justice should be extended to Indigenous children. To promote well‐being, it is argued that social workers must be given more opportunities to be involved in policymaking and advocacy for implementing Indigenous children's policies in Indonesia.

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The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

Azzasyofia,

Fouche,

Beddoe

2024

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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“…All too often social work practices that utilize a needs-based approach are contrasted to practices that utilize a rights-based approach (Ballantyne, 2019); with needs-based approaches being constructed as individualistic and case-oriented, and rights-based approaches constructed as systemic and cause-oriented (Ballantyne, 2019;Cox, Tice, & Long, 2016). Yet, this is a false dichotomy as not only can these two approaches be blended (Ballantyne, 2019), but when social workers speak to client or community needs, those statements are generally predicated on a belief that the client or community has a right that is failing to be realized (Ife, 2012). This notion is supported by CSWE's (2015) statement that social workers utilize their knowledge of human need to advance human rights.…”

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Legal Education for Human Rights Work: Social Work Practicum Students in Forensic Placements

Harris

Boys

2021

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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The Council on Social Work Education tasks social work programs to ensure students illustrate competency with regard to advocating for and advancing human rights. Given the three generations of human rights experience differing levels of guarantee and protection, multiple tools are needed in order to advance human rights across the board. As human rights cannot be sufficiently realized until they are protected by law, many of those tools are made more useful when combined with knowledge of the legal system and processes. Advocacy is a key aspect of social work practice, and therefore social work education provides a solid foundational understanding on the legislative branch of government. However, as all three branches of government have the ability to impact human rights law, we advise social work programs to integrate more opportunities for students to learn about the judicial and executive branches as well. Recognizing that not all programs are positioned to inject forensic social work education into their curriculum, we discuss an interdisciplinary practicum model that integrates social work students into university legal clinics.

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Confronting the Giants of Neoliberalism, Managerialism, and Positivism: Emancipatory Praxis and the Pursuit of Peace

Sewpaul

2024

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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While conflicts, wars, and structural violence compromise all of the sustainable development goals, the corollary argument is that without reducing environmental degradation, patriarchal power, poverty, hunger, and inequality there can be no peace. This means cutting to the chase of how social criteria such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality intersect to reproduce exclusions, othering, and structural violence. Explosive inequalities, linked with neo-colonial imperialism, neoliberal racialised capitalism and gendered racism, and unprecedent migration flows as people are forced to flee from their homes on account of conflict, poverty, and climate-induced disasters, reflect the world’s crisis of values. Spinoza’s popular refrain “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice” links personal dispositions, attributes, and morality to the macro states of peace, violence, and war. So, does Gandhi’s assertion that peace between countries rests on the foundation of love between individuals, Bauman’s call to being for the Other, and Mandela’s demonstration of how love, compassion, forgiveness, and understanding of one’s oppressor can be transformed into broad socio-political forces of reconciliation and peace. In this article, I argue that the core values of social work, supported by an emancipatory social work theoretical approach, have much to contribute to peace at personal, inter-personal, community, and global levels. At the heart of emancipatory praxis lies the dialectical relationship between self and society, the transformation of societies through politicization of the self, characterized by an evolutionary consciousness that recognizes inter-connectedness and the inherent divinity of humanity.

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Putting human rights at the heart of social work practice

Cited by 3 publications

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The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

Legal Education for Human Rights Work: Social Work Practicum Students in Forensic Placements

Confronting the Giants of Neoliberalism, Managerialism, and Positivism: Emancipatory Praxis and the Pursuit of Peace

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