This event opened up conversations between practitioners, academics and policymakers working in the fields of human rights, social work, development work, youth & community work and public health about how to define and advance social justice.

What do we have in common? What can we learn from each other? How do practitioners involved in these fields identify themselves in relation to social justice? What is the relationship between practitioners and the state? What do we mean by independence, participation, empowerment, dignity, equality, solidarity, justice, accountability?

Joan Orme, Professor of Social Work, University of Glasgow:

‘Feminist Social Work is Just, Good Practice.’

 

John Gaventa, Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex:

‘Deepening Democracies for Social Justice: Realising the Rights of Participation.’

 

Sue Mendus, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of York:

‘Which Rights; Whose Obligations?’

 

Workshops

• Health & Human Rights

• Mary Renfrew, Professor of Mother and Infant Health, University of York

• Working towards Social Justice with Participatory Action Research: Barriers and Opportunities

• Rachel Pain, Reader in the Department of Geography, Durham University

• Films also available

• Human Rights and Social Justice

• Jean Candler, British Institute of Human Rights.

• Meaning of Social Justice in a Multi Cultural Society

• Gary Craig, Professor of Social Justice, University of Hull

Roger Smith, Director of Justice:

'The Onward March of Progress Halted? The current state of social justice and human rights in the UK'

Last Updated:

16 Nov 2009 | Author