Katherine Stuart van Wormer, PhD, MSSW, is Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. A native of New Orleans, she majored in English at the University of North Carolina where she was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She worked for several years in Northern Ireland as an English teacher and in Norway as an alcoholism counselor.Rosemary J. Link, PhD, LISW, is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Simpson College. An international human rights expert, she has developed exchanges in a variety of countries, including Mexico with the Center for Global Education; initiated a 20 year sustained exchange of faculty and students with the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Augsburg College MN; and presented with Indian and US social work students in Bangalore, Chennai and Mangalore.

The spirit of human rights and social work fits clearly, but the will to articulate human rights as foundational to social work has been sidelineduntil now. This book provides human rights as an organizing framework, and makes it transferable to the syllabus and classroom. The global perspective is effectivewe see more clearly when we learn through our peers around the world. The authors wisely include environmental justice and the kin idea of sustainable development; this is where human rights are nurtured or diminished for people all around the globe.

• PREFACE PART ISOCIAL WELFARE: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS Chapter 1Social Work: A Human Rights Profession Chapter 2American Social Values in International Context Chapter 3Emergence of Social Work: Part I Chapter 4Emergence of Social Work: Part II Chapter 5 Social Forms of Oppression Chapter 6Human Rights and Restorative Justice Chapter 7Poverty and Human Rights Chapter 8Public Assistance and Other Strategies to End Poverty PART II SOCIAL WORK ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE Chapter 9 Environmental Justice Chapter 10 Child Welfare Chapter 11 Care at the End of the Life Cycle Chapter 12 Health Care as a Human Rightby Marta Vides Saade Chapter 13 Care for Persons with Mental and Physical Disabilities Epilogue "Putting It All Together" Appendix A: U.N. Universal Declaration of Human RightsAppendix B: Outline for Anti-Oppressive Policy Analysis Appendix C: Relevant Internet Sites Index