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Human Rights-Based Community Practice in the United States

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Rights-Based Approaches to Social Work Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08210-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-08209-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 17, 2014

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Human Rights-Based Approaches to Community Practice in the United States: A Call to Action

Libal, Kathryn R.; Harding, Scott

Pages: 1 –17

[As the movement for human rights has matured in the United States, local organizations are increasingly making claims for social inclusion and equality using the language of human rights. This chapter outlines the value of using a rights-based rather than a needs-based approach by community...
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Mobilizing for the Right to Health and Health Care

Libal, Kathryn R.; Harding, Scott

Pages: 19 –37

[This chapter addresses efforts to secure the right to health care through community practice. It depicts the importance of different forms of community practice to the realization of the human right to health and health care. The authors link the conceptual framework of community practice,...
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More Than a Commodity: The Right to Adequate Housing

Liba, Kathryn R.; Harding, Scott

Pages: 39 –59

[Like rights-based claims to health and food, recognizing housing as a human right in the United States is a contested process marked by a number of promising local campaigns. This chapter outlines a nascent movement to assure decent and affordable housing based on a human rights perspective....
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Building a Movement to Recognize Food Security as a Human Right in the United States

Libal, Kathryn R.; Harding, Scott

Pages: 61 –77

[Food insecurity in the United States is an ordinary facet of life for nearly 15 % of the population. Food assistance policy has been dominated by charitable and needs-based systems that are largely ameliorative, and do not address underlying conditions that create hunger and widespread food...
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Community Practice, Fostering Participation, and Human Rights

Libal, Kathryn R.; Harding, Scott

Pages: 79 –83

[This chapter reviews key themes made in the first four chapters, each of which urged community social workers to consider the consonance of social work values with human rights. The authors reaffirm the importance of applying key human rights principles to community practice, including respect...

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