Building human rights awareness through our daily work

Author(s):  
Arthur J. Kendall
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2021 ◽  
pp. 169-202
Author(s):  
Richard Martin

This chapter engages in a detailed examination of how neighbourhood officers made sense of human rights in everyday work with communities. It begins by introducing community policing in Northern Ireland, as well as in the two towns where the fieldwork took place. The analysis is then developed across three sections, drawing on neighbourhood officers’ accounts, narratives and experiences. First, the chapter critically tests the two analytical bridges that have been constructed by the PSNI and the Policing Board to discursively connect human rights with community policing. Second, it examines how officers encountered, and responded to, the lay lexicons of rights that confronted them within communities, as juxtaposed with the official narrative of chief officers presented in Chapter 2. This analysis reveals how removed officers felt human rights were from their daily work; that is, rights could neither adequately account for, nor make sense of, their relationships or activities in communities. The chapter concludes by asking what this distance means for the protection of certain groups in society.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sâmya Rodrigues Ramos ◽  
Aione Maria Costa Sousa ◽  
Iana Vasconcelos ◽  
Larissa Jéssica Ferreira de Souza

O Conselho Federal de Serviço Social (CFESS) vem, nas últimas décadas, construindo iniciativas para fomentar o debate ético-profissional e dos direitos humanos em diversas frentes de intervenção. Desta forma, o presente artigo analisa as repercussões da ação política do CFESS no campo da ética e dos direitos humanos no cotidiano de trabalho de assistentes sociais do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Neste sentido, o artigo é fruto de uma pesquisa realizada com profissionais de Mossoró (RN), concluída em 2017. Constatamos que as ações promovidas pelo CFESS têm uma significativa repercussão e vêm ganhando materialidade no cotidiano de trabalho dos assistentes sociais, reforçando o posicionamento ético-político defendido pelo Serviço Social brasileiro nas últimas quatro décadas.Palavras-Chave: ética; direitos humanos; Serviço Social; saúde.  Abstract – In the last decades, the Federal Council of Social Work (CFESS) has been implementing initiatives to promote ethical-professional and Human Rights debate on several fronts. In this sense, this article analyzes the impact of CFESS’s political action concerning ethics and Human Rights in the daily work of social workers of the Unified Health System (SUS). The article is the result of a survey carried out with professionals from Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte concluded in 2017. We find that the actions promoted by CFESS have a significant repercussion and are gaining materiality in the daily work of social workers, reinforcing the political-ethic positioning advocated by Brazilian social work over the last four decades.Keywords: ethics; human rights; social work; healthcare.


2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Jeanne Simonelli

Practicing Anthropology presents current, concise reports by people who apply their anthropological skills and perspectives in their daily work. They are researchers, teachers, program coordinators, policy analysts, and consultants. They are anthropologists, sociologists, and community development specialists. As such, the authors/practitioners face dilemmas and solve problems that many of us encounter in our own work. One of the goals of the journal in the coming months is to provide an opportunity for social scientists and other practitioners to exchange ideas concerning how to deal with particular methodological, theoretical or ethical concerns. Though we work in diverse areas, including development, health, education, cultural and human rights, cultural resource management, to name a few, we have much to learn from each others' successes and failures, both obvious and subtle.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kumar Tiwari
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2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Lacroix ◽  
Jean-Yves Pranchère
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