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Creating a Human Rights Culture Website for Dr. Joseph Wronka Professor of Social Work, Springfield College, Massachusetts USA Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) |
(Please note: This website is still under construction. It should be fully functional after Spring Break, March 19, 2012. I hope, however, that you will find some of its contents at this time useful. Please come back. Thank you for your interest in human rights and social justice) |
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Home Page - Purposes of Website Creating a Human Rights Culture
The purposes of this website are to:
(1) discuss the DEFINITION and RELEVANCE of a human rights culture;
(2) provide summaries of select major HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS;
(3) provide LINKS to additional resources for the human rights/social activist;
(4) give examples of SOCIAL ACTION STRATEGIES to implement human rights principles;
(5) provide opportunity for COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION for anyone interested in engaging in a creative dialogue with others to move towards the creation of a human rights culture;
(6) provide examples of students’ and others’ RESEARCH/ACTION PROJECTS;
(7) provide information concerning the AUTHOR’S WORKS, including primarily books, articles, and presentations;
(8) provide other MISCELLANEOUS links to videos, interviews with human rights/social justice advocates, music, photos, and anything that might be useful, if not, just plain fun; and
(9) provide the opportunity to contact the author through a CONTACT ME page.
In brief, this website is to serve as a portal to knowledge and activities that ought to move people to direct non-violent actions to create a socially just world, constructed from the pillars of human rights. Whereas its audience might be primarily persons in the helping and health professions, particularly social work and public health, more specifically those in generalist, and “advanced” generalist practice, this website ought to prove useful for the “educated layperson,” from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds, and nationalities, though we are all world citizens.