Human Rights and Social Justice

Part I: Human Rights as the Bedrock of Social JusticeChapter 1:  Introduction   Rationale for This Work   Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture   Five Core Notions of Human Rights   Social Justice as Struggle   Some Initial Provisos for the Human Rights Defender   Political Argument--Don't Be Fooled   Summary   Questions for Discussion   Activities/Actions   NotesChapter 2: Before and Beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights   Toward a History of the Idea of Human Rights   Antiquity   The Middle Ages   The Renaissance   The Age of Enlightenment   The Age of Industrialization   Select Input Prior to the Endorsement of the Universal Declaration   Select Core Principles of Some Major Human Rights Documents   Other Human Rights Regimes   Implementation   Universal Periodic Review (UPR)   Summary   Questions for Discussion   Activities/Actions   NotesPart II: Building from the FoundationChapter 3: An Advanced Generalist/Public Health Model and Whole Population Approaches to Human Rights and Social Justice   A Helping and Health Profession Model of Intervention   Levels of Intervention   The Struggle to Implement Levels of Intervention   Education Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture   Commemorating Major International Days   Proclamations, Resolutions, Declarations, and Bills   Providing NGO Input   The Arts, Human Rights, and Social Justice   Other Select Direct Nonviolent Strategies   Summary   Questions for Discussion   Activities/Actions   NotesChapter 4: At-Risk and Clinical Social Action and Service Strategies Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture   The Helping and Health Professions as an At-Risk Group   Business and Human Rights   Humanistic Administration   Social Entrepreneurship   Grant Writing   Principles for the Protection of Persons With Mental Illness   Toward a Socially Just Human Rights-Based Approach to Clinical Practice   Human Rights Principles That Have Implications for the Therapeutic Relationship   Some Words on the Meta-Micro Level   Summary   Questions for Discussion   Activites/Actions   NotesChapter 5: A Human Rights/Social Justice Approach to Research-Action Projects for the Helping and Health Professions   Human Rights Documents as a Means of Defining the Problem   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Project   Toward a Culture of Informed Consent   Quantitative Research   Qualitative Research   Research Leading to Social Action   Summary   Questions for Discussion   Activities/Actions   NotesChapter 6: Ground Rules   Toward the Paradoxical Commandments   Some Ground Rules for Social Action and Service   Conclusion   Questions for Discussion   Activity/Action   NoteChapter 7: Redux: A Human Rights/Social Justice Approach to Policy Assessment and Direct Non-Violent Social Action   The World Drug Problem   Chapter as a Synopsis   Steps Actually a Misnomer   A Human Rights/Social Justice Approach to Policy Assessment and Direct Non-Violent Action as Pertaining to Illicit Drug Abuse