Paper-III Human Rights and Social Work

Paper-III

Human Rights and Social Work

Objectives:

 To study the philosophical and cultural basis and historical perspective on
human rights

 To understand the human rights with Social Work perspective

 To study and understand the role and dimensions of Social Worker in Human
Rights

 To understand the human rights in connection with marginalized communities

UNIT I: Human Rights and Duties: Conceptual Perspectives - Concepts: Human
Rights, Duties, Human Dignity; Notion & Classification of Rights: Natural, Moral
and Legal Rights; Three Generations of Human Rights: Civil & Political Rights,
Economic, Social Cultural Rights, Collective/ Solidarity Rights; Human Rights
Movements: Historical Evolution of Human Rights at international &National level.

UNIT II: Human Rights and Social Work - Human Rights and Social Justice;
Human Rights and Social Work’s basic linkages; Role of Social Worker in Human
Right Dimensions.

UNIT III: International Perspective to Human Rights - International Concern for
Human Rights; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International Covenant on
Economic Social and Cultural Rights.

UNIT IV: Mechanism for Protecting Human Rights in India - National & State
Human Rights Commission; Statutory Mechanisms for Human Rights: Legislative,
Executive & Judiciary; Human Rights Commissions: Women, Children, Scheduled
Castes & Schedule Tribes, Minorities, Differently Able, Displaced; Socio, Economic,
Political and Administrative Constrains in Enforcements.

UNIT V: Human Rights Violation & Constitutional Remedies in India - Violation of
Human Rights in Family, Disadvantaged Groups, Women & Children, Minorities,
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Castes, Displaced and
Custodial Violence; Role of Regional, National and International Non-Government
Organizations in Promoting Human Rights

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3. Diwan, Paras and Peeyushi Diwan, Children and Legal Protection (New Delhi:
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4. Iyer, V.R. Krishna, Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs (New Delhi: D.K.
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5. Jaswal, P.S. and N. Jaswal, Human Rights and the Law (New Delhi: APH
Publishing House, 1996)

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7. Kothari, Smitu and Harsh Sethi, Rethinking Human Rights (1991).

8. Mehta, P.L., and Neena Verma, Human Rights under the Indian Constitution
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