Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- A Global Agenda as Point of Departure -- Selection of Contributions for the Volumes -- Human Rights and Social Equality -- 2 Human Rights and Social Equality -- Growing Gaps -- Austerity Programs -- Extreme Nationalistic Movements -- Right to an Adequate Standard of Living -- Affirmative Action Necessary -- 3 Social Work and Human Rights: An African Perspective -- Introduction -- The Impact of Colonialism -- New Forms of Imperialism -- The Complicity of African Leaders in Human Rights Violations -- Cultural Specificity and Universal Human Rights -- The Way Forward: Implications for Social Work -- Conclusion -- 4 Disability and the Struggle for Inclusion -- Social Work and Disability: Time for a Different Response -- Introduction -- Global Developments in Disability -- Assistance and Support -- Constructive Engagements -- Considering Two Outcomes Paradigms: the Improving (Person-Centred) and the Proving (Managerialist) Agendas -- Introduction -- Policy Background -- Talking Points Personal Outcomes Approach -- Conclusion -- The Integration of Children and Youth with Disabilities into Family and Community Life -- 5 Active and Dignified Ageing -- Active and Dignified Ageing in Asia -- Introduction of the Region -- Population Ageing in Asia -- Active and Dignified Ageing -- Policy Options to Support Active and Dignified Ageing in Asia -- Conclusion -- Population Decline and Ageing in Europe -- Safeguarding Older People from Mistreatment -- Ethical Constraints and Dilemmas -- An Ethic of Care -- Social Integration and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults in Urban China -- Research Objectives -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Appendix: Measures for Control Variables -- 6 Perspectives on Children at Risk.

Child Protection System Mapping and Assessment -- Introduction -- What is Child Protection? -- Issues Approach and the Challenges it Presents -- What the Systems Approach Offers -- Systems Typology and Mappings -- Conclusion -- Child Rights/Community Development Principles -- Introduction -- Theoretical Lenses -- Conclusion -- Project Barnablick: Through the Eyes of a Child. Redefining Child Advocacy within a Not-for-Profit Organisation -- Introduction: How the Project Came About -- Through the Eyes of a Child -- Results -- Conclusion -- Working with Resistant Parents in Child Protection -- Introduction -- Resistant and Violent Parents -- Conclusion -- 7 Youth and Vulnerability - Current Challenges -- Youth Futures -- Introduction -- Premises -- Target Population -- Inputs -- Typical Processes -- Youth Futures is Regarded as a Positive Factor -- Evidence-based Community Interventions for Tackling the Problems of Youth Gang Violence and Delinquency in Central America -- Context -- The Research Project -- Methodology -- Measurement -- Overall Findings -- Our Suggestion -- Conclusion -- International Comparative Research Regarding Vulnerable Young People -- Introduction -- Building Knowledge for Practice in an International Context -- Towards Context Sensitive Research -- Conclusion -- 8 Violence Against Women -- Collaborative Work to Promote the Rights of Children Affected by Violence Against Woman -- Introduction and Context Setting -- Methodology -- Complexity of Working Across Agencies -- Managing Cross Referral Processes -- Appropriate Use of a Range of Services -- Raising Awareness in a Multi-agency Context -- Conclusion -- The Woman and Girl Child Phenomenon and Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Botswana -- Introduction and Background -- Overview of GBV in Botswana -- Latent and Active Factors Informing GBV -- Implications of GBV in Botswana.

Efforts to Address GBV in Botswana -- Conclusion -- Challenges in the Implementation of the Maria da Penha Law for Battered Women Policies in Brazil -- Introduction -- Method -- Results -- Conclusions -- 9 To Fulfil Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Rights -- Conflicting and Competing Expectations: the Routinisation and Invisibilisation of LGBT Rights and Narratives -- Delivering School-based Groups to Sexual Minority Youth: Social Justice in Practice? -- Background -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- From the Margin to the Centre: Why and How to Launch a Debate on LGBT Issues in Italian Social Work? -- The Legal Situation of LGBT People in Italy -- Exploring the Presence of LGBT Issues in Italian Social Work -- Approaching LGBT Issues in Italian Social Work -- 10 The Right to Health and Social Equality -- The Right to Health and Migration -- Background -- National Board of Health and Welfare -- Official Inquiry -- Current Legislation and Situation in Sweden of UDMs -- Interpretation of the Right to Health -- Push-and-pull Factors -- Patient Safety and Communicable Disease Prevention and Control -- Conflicting Interests -- Costs -- Proposals -- Conclusion -- Aftermath -- Drug Use and the Right of Everyone to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health -- Introduction -- Locating Harm Reduction: 'The Risk Environment' for Drug Related Harm -- Harm Reduction and the Social Determinants of Health -- Conclusion -- Accountability and the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health -- Introduction -- Sources of the Right to Health -- Content of the Right to Health -- What is Accountability? -- Monitoring in Accountability -- Effective Remedies -- Conclusion -- African American Adults: The Degree to which Selected Social and Cultural Variables Influence the Execution of an Advance Directive -- Advance Directives -- Law -- Research.

Discussion -- Appendix: The Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development -- Index.

The mission of the social work profession and the development of social policy are rooted in a set of core values and are the foundation of social work's unique purpose and perspective. Human rights offer a normative base for social work and for the formation of inclusive social policies. This informative and incisively written edited collection brings together experts from around the world to explore the tension between a normative and a political base of social work and social development and, therefore, to address the question: How can social work and social policies contribute in the endeavor to respect, protect and fulfill human rights? This volume will show that there is no straightforward answer to this question owing to the clash between different sociocultural and local conditions and demands for universal human rights.

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