Social Work Intervention for Promoting Human Rights Culture

Abstract

Creating human rights culture is crucial for sustainability and well- being of human kind. The effective implementation of social work principle and values for human rights practices can cultivate human rights culture. Rights relating to human needs, freedom and duties  have to upheld and nurtured. The magnitude of violations of human rights are perpetrated every day threatening the peace and harmony of the people. Sexual harassment, dowary deaths, physical and mental abuses, police torture and detention without trail, displacement of people due to natural disaster and conflicts are endangered even the survival of human being. The victims of human rights violations are bounded throughout  their life with out getting  legal and public support. In this situation, the relevance of social work intervention is become very crucial. It ensures the people to resists violations of human rights which threaten or diminish quality of life and promote life enhancing care, protection and welfare. Advocacy is a major social work intervention to appraise and restore human rights. It is a process by an individual or group  which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions- that directly affect the people’s lives. Human rights advocacy include many activities that a person or organization undertakes through media, campaigns, sensitizing the mass , commissioning, publishing and dissemination of knowledge. It leads to make a violation free society with respecting the worth and dignity of the individual and group. Though the social work intervention on human rights practices is to improve the quality of life”.