Social Work as a Human Rights Profession Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences

Overview

Social Work as a Human Rights Profession from Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences combines classroom teaching blended with modules on internet-based learning for a profound focus on research. The MA program requires a full-time commitment and personal perseverance from students.

Quick Facts:

• Social work and human rights are frequently encountered when working with vulnerable groups such as children or migrants respectively when working on issues related to the right to health or to social problems like poverty, social exclusion or discrimination with regard to a person's identity, gender or race.
• The need for an international Master program on Social Work as a Human Rights Profession has often been articulated in meetings of the International Association of School of Social Workers (IASSW) and the conference of the European Network on Social Action (ENSACT). This idea became more concrete during a pre-conference to the ENSACT conference in Brussels in April 2011 organized by Prof. Dr. Staub-Bernasconi and others on the issue of human rights and social work.'
• The MA-SWHR is a research-oriented, partially internet-based program, combining the field of social work with human rights issues. 
• Social work and human rights are frequently encountered when working with vulnerable groups such as children or migrants respectively when working on issues related to the right to health, to the social challenge of poverty, to social exclusion, to discrimination with regard to a person’s gender or to the complexity of racism.
• The main aim of the MA-SWHR is the translation of the often very abstract and appellative human rights discourse into the theory and practice of social work.
• This objective is strongly linked to the development of a general professional self-conception based on the “triple mandate of social work”, meaning that the universally known “d
• This consists of science-based theories of action, intervention as well as the principles of the profession’s code of ethics.ouble mandate of social work” on behalf of the addressees and the society/providers is complemented by a third mandate on behalf of the profession.