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Journal of Human Rights and Social Work brings together knowledge about addressing human rights in practice, research, policy, and advocacy as well as teaching about human rights from around the globe.

  • A resource for educators, practitioners, and administrators in the field of social work, with a focus on human rights practice in social work research, practice and education. The journal provides research-based human rights tools, theoretical discussions of human rights, and guidelines for improving practice.
  • Welcomes interdisciplinary and international work including the fields of psychology, sociology, social policy, social welfare, and social development.
  • Articles explore the history of social work as a human rights profession, familiarize participants on how to advance human rights using the human rights documents from the United Nations, present the types of monitoring and assessment that takes place internationally and within the U.S., demonstrate rights-based practice approaches and techniques, and facilitate discussion of the implications of human rights tools and the framework for social work practice.
Co-Editors
  • Shirley Gatenio Gabel,
  • Cathryne L. Schmitz
Impact factor
1.2 (2022)
5 year impact factor
1.3 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
12 days
Downloads
213,657 (2023)

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Journal updates

  • Call for Papers: Environmental and Climate Justice: Intersecting Rights of Humans and the Natural World

    The Journal of Human Rights and Social Work is now inviting manuscript contributions for the upcoming special issue Environmental and Climate Justice: Intersecting Rights of Humans and the Natural World. Despite the increasing risk associated with climate change, little attention has been given in social work literature on including local, community, and systemic environmental issues, and even less has focused on connections between human rights, nature, and the ecology. 
     

    We welcome submissions based on Indigenous practices, cultural models, community responses, and interdisciplinary interventions/research.
     

    We are interested in submissions that address the multifaceted issues that cross environmental and social justice, explore human rights concerns and the rights of nature, and engage social work perspectives. We seek conceptual, empirical, and personal reflections for practice or teaching.


    Guest Editors: Cathryne L. Schmitz, Lacey M. Sloan 
    Submission Deadline: April 15, 2024

  • Guidelines for Special Issue Proposals

    Interested in submitting a proposal for a special issue in the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work? Learn more about the elements required upon submission, the submission process, and the criteria used to evaluate proposals.

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2365-1792
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