Shirley Gatenio Gabel, PhD, MPhil, MSW, is a Professor and Mary Ann Quaranta Chair for Social Justice for Children at Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Service. Gatenio Gabel's research focuses on human rights and social policies, particularly those affecting children. She is the editor of the book series Rights-Based Approaches to Social Work Practice, author of A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy Analysis (2016), and co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Ethics, Morals, Human Rights, and Justice in Social Work PracticeSection 1: Human RightsChapter 2: Human Dignity and Respect for AllChapter 3: Evolving Concepts of Human RightsChapter 4: Modern Human RightsChapter 5: American Exceptionalism to International Human Rights LawsSection 2: Diversity, Privilege, Oppression, and IntersectionalityChapter 6: Diversity, Privilege, and OppressionChapter 7: Social Identities, Positionality, and IntersectionalitySection 3: JusticeChapter 8: What Is Justice?Chapter 9: Social JusticeChapter 10: Economic JusticeChapter 11: Environmental JusticeSection 4: Integrating a Human Rights Approach to Justice in Social Work PracticeChapter 12: Applying a Rights-Based Approach to Justice in Social WorkChapter 13: ConclusionAppendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This essential text calls social work back to its roots of fighting systematic oppression and injustice. It provides the fundamental knowledge students need about human rights and justice with how to apply the rights-based approach at every level of social work practice to be 'human rights defenders.'"