Résumé

Defining a human rights culture as a “lived awareness” of human rights principles in our minds and hearts and integrated into our everyday lives, this workshop will: 1) define these principles vis-à-vis the Human Rights Triptych consisting in brief of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the center;  declarations, and conventions on the right panel; and implementation measures on the left; 2) discuss their implications for Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice, defined here as interventions to promote well-being on the meta-macro (global), macro (whole population), mezzo (at-risk), micro (clinical), meta-micro (everyday life), and research (quantitative and qualitative); and 3) discuss  examples and joint social actions and struggles  to create a socially just world constructed from these pillars of human rights as discussed in part in the third edition of the presenter’s book Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (Cognella, 2023) (including an instructor’s manual). It is both didactic, yet participatory. To elaborate ,that Triptych articulates  fundamental rights to human dignity, respect for diversity, peace, a clean environment and the interdependency of human rights. It will thus examine “Sisyphus like” multi-pronged interventions concerning mental illness, AIDS, substance use, mass shootings, mass incarceration, and COVID.  Thus, to eradicate COVID, we must continue to encourage  at risk strategies such as the wearing of masks and clinical ones to counsel those with long COVID.  Yet, we must also go upstream to have a global vision that the meta-macro entails, to stop the exploitation of exotic environments to appease material appetites of richer countries. This workshop also has an extreme ethical dimension not only for social workers, but also for everyperson, everywhere, thus requiring fundamental character change to treat others with human dignity, in non-discriminatory ways, and fully aware of the interdependency of human rights. 

Mots clés (séparés par des virgules)

Human Rights, Social Justice, Human Dignity,  Advanced Generalist Practice, Macro mezzo and micro interventions, non-discrimination, the interdependency of rights, democracy, ethics