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  • 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

  • Best Paper Award

    Each year, the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work chooses a particularly noteworthy article to receive special recognition. 


    For it's inaugural selection, JHRW has chosen "Human Rights-Based Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in a Legal Services Organization" by David Androff and Cherra Mathis. 
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41134-021-00197-7 (this opens in a new tab)


    Please join us in congratulating these authors on their accomplishment. In recognition of the Best Paper Award, the paper will be temporarily free to access for eight weeks beginning July 3, 2023. 

  • 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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