Professor Arizona State University Phoenix, AZ, United States
As the United Nations observes, human rights violations targeting Christians represent a growing global crisis. This presentation reviews global trends in violations and offers a human rights framework to position social workers to advocate for more inclusive, socially just societies on behalf of some of the world’s most oppressed people.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the role of human rights in social work and the United Nations’ (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with a special focus on Article 18 of the Declaration which articulates the right to religious freedom.
Describe the global increase in the prevalence and intensity of human rights violations aimed at Christians—the most widely oppressed religious group—which disproportionately impacts women and people of color in some of the most economically challenged nations on the planet.
Understand specific strategies that social work educators can implement to enhance the ability of social workers to work with, and advocate for, people who experience violations of their fundamental human rights.
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